This PDF covers the following topics related to Linux/UNIX Security :
Core security concepts, Maintaining confidentiality, Keeping our data safe from
intruders, Integrity, Authentication, Security from the start, inetd vs. iptfw,
Firewalling, Controlling your users, Cracklib, etc.
Author(s): Hervey Allen, Network Startup Resource
Center
This manual is an
introduction to Linux system administration. It covers, after an introduction to
the significance and problems of system administration, the basics of process,
user account, and access control management, the management of disk partitions,
file systems, and quotas, common boot loaders, the system start and shutdown
process, PC hardware, and library and package management.