Numbers in brackets represent each button set. December 2000 Target Audience UNIX System Administrators within the UC Davis community are the intended audience for this document. Some experience with one or more flavor of UNIX is assumed. This document outlines basic security protocols for UNIX workstations and servers. Implementing the following procedures does not guarantee the security of a system.
Hackers like to attack unattended systems because their chances of being discovered are low.
The administrator of a UNIX system should never assume that a system is safe from attack. There are a variety of techniques you can employ to make system monitoring easier and more effective. Keeping copies of system logs off-site can help ensure that you will be able to reconstruct events leading up to a system failure even if the original logs are lost. These programs will examine any passwords and reject those deemed too easy to guess. There are other potential password-related security holes that no software can guard against.