Chapter 13. Fundamentals of UNIX
IN THIS CHAPTER, WE COVER THE KEY ASPECTS of UNIX that are needed to understand the specific exploits discussed in Chapter 14, “Specific Exploits for UNIX”. Because there are so many different variants of UNIX, and new versions are coming out fairly regularly, we will try to stay as general as possible, however in some cases, the information will be true only for certain variants.
Because UNIX operating systems have been around for a while, they have been tested over a fairly long period of time. In some cases, this means the system is fairly stable from a functionality standpoint, but from a security standpoint, ...
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