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Unix Security Books

This section contains free e-books and guides on Unix Security, some of the resources in this section can be viewed online and some of them can be downloaded.

Linux Administration I System and Users

This manual is an introduction to Linux system administration. It covers, after an introduction to the significance and problems of system administration, the basics of process, user account, and access control management, the management of disk partitions, file systems, and quotas, common boot loaders, the system start and shutdown process, PC hardware, and library and package management.

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Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO (PDF 168P)

This note covers the following topics: background, history of unix, linux, and open source, security principles, why do programmers write insecure code?, is open source good for security?, types of secure programs, paranoia is a virtue, why did i write this document?, sources of design and implementation guidelines, other sources of security information, document conventions, summary of linux and unix security features, processes, files, system v ipc, sockets and network connections, signals, quotas and limits, dynamically linked libraries, audit, pam, specialized security extensions for unix-like systems, security requirements, common criteria introduction, security environment and objectives,validate all input, command line, environment variables, file descriptors, file names, file contents, web-based application inputs (especially cgi scripts), other inputs, human language (locale) selection, character encoding, prevent cross-site malicious content on input, filter html/uris that may be re-presented, remove or forbid some html data, encoding html data, validating html data, validating hypertext links (uris/urls), other html tags, related issues, forbid http get to perform non-queries, counter spam, limit valid input time and load level, avoid buffer overflow, dangers in c/c++, library solutions in c/c++, standard c library solution, static and dynamically allocated buffers, strlcpy and strlcat, libmib, c++ std

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Securing Debian Manual

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Linux Administrators Security Guide

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Practical UNIX Internet Security (S. Garfinkel, G. Spafford)

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Practical UNIX Internet Security (S. Garfinkel, G. Spafford) Mirror

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Linux Security HOWTO (K. Fenzi, D. Wreski)

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Linux Security for Beginners (Neil A. Smyth)

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Linux Firewall Configuration Packet Filtering and Netfilter/iptables (O. Andreasson)

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Linux Security Administrators Guide

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Securing Linux Production Systems (W. Puschitz)

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Secure Programming for Linux and Unix (D.A. Wheeler)

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Getting Started with SELinux (Faye Coker)

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Guide to Writing SE Linux Policy (Faye Coker)

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