FreeBSD Security How-To, Chapter One
Greetings follow FreeBSD users, lets begin.
First, start with a typical install. If you are not familiar with this process, you should be reading the handbook on installation before consulting this article.
In this chapter we'll talk about the lockdown procedures of a freebsd machine. This article assumes the end user has a general level of familarity with FreeBSD, and unix, in particular, file permissions, kernel configuration, file editing, and basic ssh usage.
In the second chapter we'll go depth with suid bits, file attributes and daemon configuration. In the 3rd chapter we'll talk about OpenSSL, IPSec and encryption in general, including GPG/PGP and TCFS.
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