Security issue - just getting started

[James Jhai]

On Thursday 30 December 2004 12:36 pm, Jeff Lewis wrote:
> I don't understand the concept of userland? (Userland vs ???)
> Throw in "chroot" and "jail" and I'm just completely lost.
> 
> Where can I get started on understanding FreeBSD security?
> 
> I want to lock down my Apache based webserver properly. 
> I don't want to JUST run a script like Bastille, except 
> to learn from it. I need the understanding to move forward.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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Also, (and I belive better then searching the net), read the man page for jails.

man jail

It gives a pretty clear discription of what a jail(8) is and a step by step on setting up a jail on your system.
-- 
- James