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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

Using glances for system monitoring


For an administrator, system monitoring is also about monitoring the performance of the system by checking the processes and services running on it. But with limited space on the screen, it sometimes becomes difficult to have all the information. In such situations, we would like to have a tool that can show us maximum information about the system, such as CPU, disk I/O, memory, network and so on, in a limited space.

Even though we have individual tools to monitor this information, with Glances, an administrator can see the maximum amount of information in the minimum amount of space. It can adapt the information dynamically as per the size of the terminal window. Glances can highlight programs that use the maximum amount of system resources.

Getting ready

If you are installing Glances on Ubuntu, then it is recommended that you use Ubuntu version 13.04 and above. For other versions of Linux, it is preferable to use the latest version. For our example, we...