Hardening S.u.S.E. 5.3 - 6.1

[cyoung at bbnplanet.com (Chuck Young)]

This looks really handy.  Have not tested it though.

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:56:11 +0200
From: Marc Heuse <marc at SUSE.DE>
To: BUGTRAQ at SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: Re: MW

Hi,

it seems like you are using an old distribution of SuSE (current is 6.2).
However, you should always be on the security announcement lists of your
favorit operating systems and install security updates asap when they are
announced. (check out http://www.suse.de/security)
Now go and get the updates for your version ...

On you question on how to secure a SuSE distribution it's simple if you've
got a 5.3 - 6.1 : just get the harden_suse.pl script and run it on your
machine. You can get it either from the 6.1 CD's, the package is called
"secchk", or get it from the page http://www.suse.de/~marc
If you use SuSE 6.2, you may try it, however there might be some stuff
missing. But I'll update the script next week.
(For non-german readers: surf to www.suse.com instead of .de)

Greets,
	Marc
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