EP029

Unix Security

Music provided by: Denis Kreynin https://soundcloud.com/denis-kreynin

UNIX was started in early 1970s by Ken Thomas and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs

UNIX is now the term used generically to cover a bunch of UNIX variant operating systems

History of UNIX password file security

PAM explained

UNIX LDAP

LDAP Password change synchronization follows RFC 3062 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3062.txt)

Change default file permissions https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/managing-default-unix-file-permissions-with-adduser-and-umask/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions#Traditional_Unix_permissions

Here’s info on the Fingerd buffer overflow bug from 1998, which I mistakenly said Kevin Mitnick used, that was part of the great internet worm: https://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/vulnerabilities/doves/1.html