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Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition
Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition
by Simson Garfinkel; Alan Schwartz; Gene Spafford

Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: February 2003
ISBN: 0-596-00323-4
Pages: 984
Slots: 2.0
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Overview

This new edition of Practical Unix & Internet Security provides detailed coverage of today's increasingly important security and networking issues. Focusing on the four most popular Unix variants today--Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD--this book contains new information on PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), LDAP, SMB/Samba, anti-theft technologies, embedded systems, wireless and laptop issues, forensics, intrusion detection, chroot jails, telephone scanners and firewalls, virtual and cryptographic filesystems, WebNFS, kernel security levels, outsourcing, legal issues, new Internet protocols and cryptographic algorithms, and much more.

 
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When "Practical Unix Security" was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubl