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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

Setting up a Kerberos server with Ubuntu


Kerberos is an authentication protocol for allowing secure authentication over untrusted networks by using secret-key cryptography and trusted third parties.

Getting ready

To get Kerberos set up and running, we need three Linux systems (in our example, we have used Ubuntu). They should be able to communicate with each other and they should also have accurate system clocks.

We have given the hostname to each system as mentioned here:

  • Kerberos system: mykerberos.com

  • SSH Server system: sshserver.com

  • Client system: sshclient.com

After doing this, edit the /etc/hosts file in each system and add the following details:

The IP address and the hostname can be different for your systems. Just make sure that after doing these changes they can still ping with each other.

How to do it...

Now, let's see how to complete the setup of the Kerberos server and the other systems for our example.

  1. The first step is to install the Kerberos server. To do this, we will run the given...