Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization is a reference for power-users and administrators covering all security issues, including Filesystems Security, Securing root accounts and Firewalls. Application performance benchmarking will also be covered. This book introduces you to many application-specific performance and benchmarking techniques and shows you how to tune your computer as well as your networks. This book covers all the primary Red Hat Linux Applications such as Apache Web Server, WuFTP, FTP server, BIND DNS server, Sendmail SMTP server and focuses on how to enhance security for each of them. It also shows you how to secure NFS and Samba Server, as well as the Apache Web Server.
Part I System Performance
Chapter 1 Performance Basics
Chapter 2 Kernel Tuning
Chapter 3 Filesystem Tuning
Part II Network and Service Performance
Chapter 4 Network Performance
Chapter 5 Web Server Performance
Chapter 6 E-Mail Server Performance
Chapter 7 NFS and Samba Server Performance
Part III System Security
Chapter 8 Kernel Security
Chapter 9 Securing Files and Filesystems
Chapter 10 PAM
Chapter 11 OpenSSL
Chapter 12 Shadow Passwords and OpenSSH
Chapter 13 Secure Remote Passwords
Chapter 14 xinetd
Part IV Network Service Security
Chapter 15 Web Server Security
Chapter 16 DNS Server Security
Chapter 17 E-Mail Server Security
Chapter 18 FTP Server Security
Chapter 19 Samba and NFS Server Security
Part V Firewalls
Chapter 20 Firewalls, VPNs, and SSL Tunnels
Chapter 21 Firewall Security Tools
Appendix A IP Network Address Classification
Appendix B Common Linux Commands
Appendix C Internet Resources
Appendix D Dealing with Compromised Systems
Appendix E What’s On the CD-ROM
Index
