Kategoriarkiv: Old Base

Simple IPTABLE firewall

Udgivet den juli 9, 2004 af mike

Protect your network with Linux’s powerful firewalling features. Linux has long had the capability for filtering packets, and it has come a long way since the early days in terms of both power and flexibility. The first generation of packet-filtering … Læs resten →

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Statiske mac tabeller

Udgivet den juli 9, 2004 af mike

Use static ARP table entries to combat spoofing and other nefarious activities. As discussed in [Hack #31], a lot of bad things can happen if someone successfully poisons the ARP table of a machine on your network. The previous hack … Læs resten →

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Using ARPWATCH

Udgivet den juli 9, 2004 af mike

Find out if there’s a “man in the middle” impersonating your server. One of the biggest threats to a computer network is a rogue system pretending to be a trusted host. Once someone has successfully impersonated another host, they can … Læs resten →

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Enforce user and groups resource limits

Udgivet den juli 9, 2004 af mike

Make sure resource-hungry users don’t bring down your entire system. Whether it’s through malicious intent or an unintentional slip, having a user bring your system down to a slow crawl by using too much memory or CPU time is no … Læs resten →

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Restricted Shell Environments

Udgivet den juli 9, 2004 af mike

Keep your users from shooting themselves (and you) in the foot. Sometimes a sandboxed environment [Hack #10] is overkill for your needs. If you want to set up a restricted environment for a group of users that only allows them … Læs resten →

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Control login access with pam

Udgivet den juli 9, 2004 af mike

Seize fine-grained control of when and where your users can access your system. In traditional Unix authentication there is not much granularity available in limiting a user’s ability to log in. For example, how would you limit the hosts that … Læs resten →

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Automated systrace policy creation

Udgivet den juli 9, 2004 af mike

Let Systrace’s automated mode do your work for you. In a true paranoid’s ideal world, system administrators would read the source code for every application on their system and be able to build system-call access policies by hand, relying only … Læs resten →

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Restricting system calls with systrace (BSD)

Udgivet den juli 9, 2004 af mike

Keep your programs from performing tasks they weren’t meant to do. One of the more exciting new features in NetBSD and OpenBSD is systrace, a system call access manager. With systrace, a system administrator can specify which programs can make … Læs resten →

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Restrict apps with grsecurity

Udgivet den juli 9, 2004 af mike

To restrict specific applications, you will need to make use of the gradm utility, which can be downloaded from the main grsecurity site (http://www.grsecurity.net). You can compile and install it in the usual way: unpack the source distribution, change into … Læs resten →

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Lock down your kernel with grsecurity

Udgivet den juli 9, 2004 af mike

Harden your system against attacks with the grsecurity kernel patch. Hardening a Unix system can be a difficult process. It typically involves setting up all the services that the system will run in the most secure fashion possible, as well … Læs resten →

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