Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should know how to set up a basic level of host security.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Awareness of shadow passwords and how they work
Turn off network services not in use
Understand the role of TCP wrappers
Terms and Utilities:
/etc/nologin
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/xinetd.d/
/etc/xinetd.conf
/etc/inetd.d/
/etc/inetd.conf
/etc/inittab
/etc/init.d/
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny