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One of things that seperates Ubuntu (or Debian based distribution) from other Linux distributions is that it disables the root account. For other distros such as Red Hat and SUSE, you are prompted for root password when it’s needed to perform a job or execute a command. You just log on as root or change [...]

The checksecurity command runs a small collection of simple system checks whcih are designed to catch a few common security issues. Checksecurity is run by cron on a daily basis. Several known hacker foot-prints are investigated on the system as well as a full system RPM verification. This program is not intended [...]

Tiger is a package consisting of Bourne Shell scripts, C code and data files which is used for checking for security problems on a UNIX system. It scans system configuration files, file systems, and user configuration files for possible security problems and reports them. The command tigexp can be used to obtain explanations of the [...]

Rootkit Hunter (RKH) is an easy-to-use tool which checks computers running UNIX (clones) for the presence of rootkits and other unwanted tools. You can use RKH along with ckrootkit to routinely check your system for possible infestation. You could manually update or scan your system or you could use a crontan script like this:

#!/bin/sh
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