Your Distro is Insecure: Ubuntu
Ubuntu Server has one of the cleanest and easiest Linux distribution installers. However, in many cases, its designers choose to ignore security in favor of ease-of-use. The result? An install that is not secure by default.
During the last couple of years, Linux distributions have focused on improving the installation process of Linux in order to make the freely available operating system available to more people. It’s a noble goal, however, when making anything in computing easier, a common approach is to make a number of decisions for the user — decisions that can put an inexperienced (and possibly an experienced) Linux installer at risk. Unfortunately, many Linux distributions make a number of painfully wrong security decisions at install. All too often these issues are overlooked by the administrator since the prevailing wisdom tends to be: “If it’s Linux, it’s secure.” As we’ll soon see, that’s not always the case. For this article we’ll look at Ubuntu Sever version 8.10. The methodology used to determine if the installation is as secure as it could be is three fold:
- Identity,
- Authentication, and
- Authorization
Identity is…
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