Thursday, February 2, 2012

Linux system of protection against hackers by some practical tips

Linux is a multiuser system, once they have your root user, he can do whatever they want on your system, because a single user on the system has full control permissions, if improper operation or by others to access, then the consequences will be dire consequences, how to prevent a single user, join the following note.

1. to protect the/etc/inittab file if the id: 3: initdefault in the 3 to 1, you can directly enter each time you boot into single user mode. On the file to root/etc/inittab entering through chown700/etc/inittab to property is set to other users cannot modify it. 2. If you are using lilo to boot, possible manner through linuxconf or directly modify the boot time waiting for lilo.conf input time is set to 0 or the shortest possible time. In this case, if you enter single user mode, you can boot with the floppy disk. 3. If the use is to boot GRUB manner, easiest way is to use the GRUB password on startup options for protection. 4, in order to prevent remote destruction, allowing the system to restart, except for the ROOT password and files under the/etc directory for effective management, it should also be set to the password-CMOS, so even if you put the system into single-user mode, it cannot start your computer directly.

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