Re: [TCLUG:12831] Issues raised today

["John R. Sheets" <dusk@ravendusk.org>]

On Jan 24, 2000, Chris McKinley <lamfada@lugh.net> wrote:
> Hm, I think that with Tim's experience today, it would be a great idea to
> have a security meeting to go over best practices, and the basics of
> security in the UNIX world, as well as info on the distros that people all
> know and love, RH, Deb, and Slack.  I know this is a HUGE subject, but I
> think the focus could be something like workstations and servers,
> commonalities, and specifics for both, and going into well known programs
> such as Apache, sendmail, inetd, ssh, etc, and to talk about the various
> security resources "out there".  I would be willing to put together a
> presentation, or coordinate presentations by a few people for the February
> or (preferably) March meeting.  What does everyone think about that?

Sounds terrific!  Might even be enough to spur me into going to a
meeting.  (c:  I was just thinking about posting a question asking
about the current crop of security testing tools.  One of these days,
I'll be getting DSL, and I'd like to have a decent firewall set up.
Does anyone have thoughts on what tools I should use to hammer on it, to
make sure I haven't forgotten anything stupid?

John

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