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Practical Linux Security Cookbook

By : Michael A Lindner, Tajinder Kalsi
Book Image

Practical Linux Security Cookbook

By: Michael A Lindner, Tajinder Kalsi

Overview of this book

With the growing popularity of Linux, more and more administrators have started moving to the system to create networks or servers for any task. This also makes Linux the first choice for any attacker now. Due to the lack of information about security-related attacks, administrators now face issues in dealing with these attackers as quickly as possible. Learning about the different types of Linux security will help create a more secure Linux system. Whether you are new to Linux administration or experienced, this book will provide you with the skills to make systems more secure. With lots of step-by-step recipes, the book starts by introducing you to various threats to Linux systems. You then get to walk through customizing the Linux kernel and securing local files. Next you will move on to manage user authentication locally and remotely and also mitigate network attacks. Finally, you will learn to patch bash vulnerability and monitor system logs for security. With several screenshots in each example, the book will supply a great learning experience and help you create more secure Linux systems.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Practical Linux Security Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Viewing and managing log files using Logcheck


As an administrator, while checking for malicious activities on the system or any software issue, log files play a very important role. However, with an increasing amount of software, the number of log files being created has also increased. This makes it very difficult for the administrator to analyze log files properly.

In such scenarios, Logcheck is a good tool to help administrators analyze and scan log files. Logcheck scans logs for interesting lines as per its documentation. These lines mainly refer to security issues that have been detected by the tool.

Getting ready

No specific requirements are needed to use Logcheck on a Linux system.

How to do it…

In this section, we will take a look at how to install and configure Logcheck as per our requirements:

  1. The first step is to install the package using the command shown in the following screenshot:

  2. During the installation, a window will open and show you information about selecting a mail server configuration...