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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

Copying files remotely


Managing a system remotely is great using SSH. However, many would not know that SSH can also help in uploading and downloading files remotely.

Getting ready

To try the file transfer tools, we only need two Linux systems which can ping each other. On one system, the OpenSSH package should be installed and the SSH server should be running.

How to do it...

Linux has a collection of tools which can help to transfer data between networked computers. We will see how a few of them work in this section:

  1. Suppose we have a file, myfile.txt, on the local system, which we want to copy to the remote system. The command to do so is given here:

    scp myfile.txt [email protected]:~Desktop/
    
    • The output is shown in the following screenshot:

    • Here, the remote location where the file will be copied to is the Desktop directory of the user account being used to connect.

  2. When we check on the remote SSH system, we can see that the file myfile.txt has been copied successfully:

  3. Now, let's suppose...