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Introduction - What is a chroot?
"A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent disk root directory
for the current running process and its children. A program that is
re-rooted to another directory cannot access or name files outside that
directory, and the directory is called a "chroot jail" or...
Last weeks on "System administrators" group on Linkedin, the members talked about how to harden a GNU/Linux web server for an hacking contest.
Because I think it was born an intersting "to do" list about the argument during a post of mine, I have taken the decision to report in this article the ideas and my vision of the problem.
Are you afraid that your system has been compromised by an unauthorized access?
Have you got discovered abnormal network activities and/or do you suspect that your system has been infected by trojans or rootkit?
Is this your nightmare?
No problem, there are some solutions which help...
My story starts in 2003 when I was taking an A+ certification training course my high school offered. One day a friend of mine/classmate brought in several CDs and said they had an operating system called Linux on them. I had never heard of Linux before this and so he did his best to explained though he didn't know much more than I did about it. The CDs collectively made up the installation disks for Mandrake. We took the entire class-day to install Mandrake and mess around with it a bit. At that...
I just posted some feedback off to Dell, expressing my "disappointment" over their decision to remove Ubuntu-based computers from their website. I didn't think to copy it, but it went something like:
I am disappointed by the decision to remove Ubuntu... I am sure there is a market... if you give Ubuntu and Windows equal coverage then many entry-level users would be interested... you shouldn't be bending to Windows' monopoly...
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