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Security and Hardening - CentOS 5.2 Print E-mail
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Source: vpsmedia - Posted by Bill Keys   
Host Security This article will cover basic security in CentOS, from securing SSH to installing and configuring a basic firewall. Since your VPS is pretty bare when we activate it, it is important to implement security as soon as you can to avoid being compromised. You will learn how to restrict access to your VPS to a small number of selected individuals (or PCs) and design a very simple but effective firewall solution. Is CentOS your Linux distribution of choice? This article is for you, it talks about ways to make you installation more secure.

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