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Slackware Linux Benchmark

Name	Slackware Linux Benchmark
Version	Version 1.1
Status	Final
Creation Date	2006-06-16
Revision Date	2006-06-16
Product Category	Operating System
Vendor	Slackware Linux, Inc.
Product	Slackware
Product Version	Slackware 10.2
Product Role	Desktop/Server Operating System
Checklist Summary	This document contains recommendations for the secure configuration of Slackware Linux distributions.
Known Issues
Target Audience
Target Operational Environment	Enterprise/SOHO
Checklist Installation Tools	Not Available
Rollback Capability	Not Available
Testing Information	Not Available
NIAP/CMVP Status
Regulatory Compliance
Comments, Warnings, Disclaimer, Miscellaneous
Disclaimer	Differs for Public and Private consumers, please read disclaimer information from the CIS web site located at: http://www.cisecurity.org/sub_form.html
Product Support
Submitting Organization/Authors	The Center for Internet Security (CIS)
Point of Contact	cis-feedback@cisecurity.org
Sponsor
Licensing	Differs for Public and Private consumers, please read licensing information from the CIS web site located at: http://www.cisecurity.org/sub_form.html
Checklist Homepage	http://www.cisecurity.org/
Download Package	http://www.cisecurity.org/sub_form.html
Integrity	sha1 (CIS_Slackware_Linux_Benchmark_v1.1.pdf) = dfbab002332c4c8e988a2b074b84819087cb692d sha256 (CIS_Slackware_Linux_Benchmark_v1.1.pdf) = 391af545055470ff594597bd088147b1c350afe0e6 5d052c5fc007e363c64a63
Change History
Dependency/Requirement
References	Slackware - http://www.slackware.com Patches and related documentation:http://www.slackware.com/security/ ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/ Slackware Book: http://www.slackbook.org/ General Slackware: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Slackware http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Slackware-Introduction http://slackwiki.org/Main_Page Partitioning: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/ other-formats/html_single/Partition.html http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning A collection of Slackware How to's: http://www.linuxpackages.net/howto/ Other Misc Documentation: Primary source for information on NTP: Information on MIT Kerberos: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/ Apache "Security Tips" document: http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_apache.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/security_tips.html Information on sendmail and DNS: http://www.sendmail.org/ http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/dns-sendmail/DNSandSendmail.pdf OpenSSH (secure encrypted network logins): http://www.openssh.org TCP Wrappers source distribution: ftp.porcupine.org PortSentry and Logcheck (port and log monitoring tools): http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/ Swatch (log monitoring tool): http://www.oit.ucsb.edu/~eta/swatch/ Open source sendmail (email server) distributions: ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/ LPRng (Open Source replacement printing system for Unix): http://www.lprng.org/ CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System): h ttp://www.cups.org/ sudo (provides fine-grained access controls for superuser activity): http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ Tripwire – file modification utility http://www.tripwire.org DoD Warning banner: http://www.dss.mil/infoas/dod_warning_banner.doc General Warning banners: http://www.voled.doded.mil/voled_web/ PrivacySecurityDisclaimer.htm http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/j-043.shtml
NIST Identifier	1105