Use sudo to execute commands as root as a replacement for su. In the /etc/sudoers file, add the following lines by using the visudo command:
Cmnd_Alias LPCMDS = /usr/sbin/lpc, /usr/bin/lprm
eric ALL=LPCMDS
Now the user 'eric' can sudo and use the lpc and lprm commands without having any other root level access. |
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Users who have sudoer (sudo) accounts setup can have the account setup to change to root without a password. To check this, as root use the following command:
grep NOPASSWD /etc/sudoers
If there is an entry in the sudoers file, it will look like this:
eric ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL
To get rid of this, type visudo and remove the line in that file.
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Password protect your linux install with LILO. Edit your /etc/lilo.conf.
At the end of each linux image that you want to secure, put the lines:
read-only
restricted
password = MySecurePassword
Ensure you rereun /sbin/lilo so the changes take effect.
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There are files that get changed very infrequently. For instance, if your system won't have any users added anytime soon then it may be sensible to chattr immutably the /etc/password and /etc/shadow files. Only the superuser or a process possessing the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or clear this attribute.
chattr +i /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
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Disallow ICMP
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Some attackers, prior to attacking a host, (or users nmaping a host) will check to see if the host is alive. They do this by 'ping'ing the host. In order to check if the host is up, they will use an ICMP echo request packet.
To disallow these types of packets, use iptables:
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j DROP
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