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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

OpenSSL Server


SSL is a protocol used for transmitting sensitive information over the Internet. This could include information such as account passwords, credit card details, and so on. SSL is most popularly used in conjunction with web browsing over the HTTP protocol.

OpenSSL library provides an implementation of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and TLS Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols.

Getting Ready

To demonstrate the use of OpenSSL, we need two systems. One will be used as a server on which we will install the OpenSSL package and also Apache. The second system will be used as the client.

How to do it...

We will now see how to create a self-signed certificate using OpenSSL, for Apache. This will help encrypt traffic to the server:

  1. We start by installing OpenSSL package on the first system using the following command:

  2. Next, we will install Apache on the same system, as shown in the following:

  3. Once Apache is installed, we need to enable SSL support, which comes as standard in the Apache package...