Chapter 30. Security Basics

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

In this chapter, you learn to perform some basic security-oriented optimization on your Linux system. Any Fedora Core 4 can be configured in hundreds of flexible ways to maximize security and safety from outside attacks while still permitting you, the user, to finish the work you need to finish. You should follow along with this chapter and understand the settings discussed here if you plan to use your computer on a network for any period of time.

For server systems, you ...

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