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RedHat Linux Security for the non-Unix Computer Officer
This is the material from the Techlinks talk on security on Red Hat Linux, aimed at the Computer Officer who has only a couple or three Linux boxes and doesn't want to become a fully-skilled Linux system administrator.
The slides
- PDF, one slide per page
- The OpenOffice.org slideshow
- PDF, four slides per page. This was the handout for the talk.
Other resources
The talk ran through the simple updating of a Red Hat Linux 9 system. Transcripts of various updates are available. In each case the transition is from a newly-installed system to a fully-patched system.
In all cases the directory /mnt/redhat has already been created and the Red Hat mirror mounted on it. Similarly the RPM-GPG-KEY file has been imported into the pacakge manager and the rpmdb-redhat package installed.
- Red Hat 9: kernel and glibc, applications.
- Red Hat 8.0: kernel and glibc, applications.
- Red Hat 7.3: kernel and glibc, applications.
- The version of
rpmshipped with 7.3 (and earlier releases) of Red Hat Linux lacks some of the features I used in the talk. In particular, it does not cope with multiple versions of the same package appearing on the argument list. This is why, in the 7.3 examples, I am rather more cautious with the packages I include for the system upgrade and I use a trick withlsandgrepto filter out the older release ofLPRng.