Re: Securing Debian

[Geoff Thurman <geoffthur@ntlworld.com>]

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 3:54 pm, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> > I have an email server (qmail running on debian),
> > that I need to make as secure as possible.
> > Can anyone point me to some good links that
> > relate to security?
> >
> > Has anyone used bastille?  What do you think
> > of it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Rick
>
> I used bastille in the past and found it to do
> it's job quite well.
> You may als look at:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/index.en.html
>
> Personally i do this to harden a server:
> - remove all unnecessary software
> - add firewall script
> - run bastille (hardening)
> - install file integrity checker (i'm testing samhain at the moment)
> - install snort
> - install logchecker
>
> Regards,
> Benedict

There are a lot of links here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45261

There was a good piece about security on the same site roughly a 
fortnight ago, but I can't find it now. I might post again if I track 
it down.

Cheers,

Geoff