linux:administration:security
Security
Filesystem
- 3 Best Ways to Securely Wipe Disk in Linux:
shred,wipesudo shred -v /dev/sda # or (if too slow) sudo shred -v -n 1 /dev/sda
Users
- show all logged in users:
users - show user/groups assignments and identifiers:
id
Files
/etc/passwd: defines users, their primary groups and login shell/etc/shadow: password (hash) database/etc/groups: defines all other groups a user is in
Sudoers
File /etc/sudoers defines users (and options) related to command sudo. It might make sense to specify a varying umask in ~/.bashrc.
if [[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]]; then umask 0022 else umask 0027 fi
Firewall
- show iptables firewall rules:
iptables -L -n -v - show Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) rules:
sudo ufw status verbose - show all predefined UFW application profiles:
sudo ufw app list - establish rules from predefined UFW application profile:
sudo ufw allow from 192.168.178.0/24 to any app samba4 - delete allow rules from UFW application profile:
sudo ufw delete allow from 192.168.178.0/24 to any app samba4
Files
/etc/ufw/applications.d/*: predefined UFW application profiles/var/log/ufw.log: UFW log (for example blocked packets)
linux/administration/security.txt · Last modified: by Ralf Hoppe
