Chapter 3. System Security

THIS CHAPTER FOCUSES ON SOLARIS 8 SYSTEM SECURITY, so it may be thought of as the core of this book.We will start with the beginning of any system, the installation, and proceed to system configuration, where the intricacies of configuring Solaris 8 for security are introduced. The first part of this chapter deals with system configuration. The second part introduces the Automated Security Enhancement Tool (ASET) and two free web services provided by Sun Microsystems—the Solaris Fingerprint Database and the BigAdmin web portal. It should be noted that recommendations in this chapter are general in nature and should ...

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