Hi,

There aren't many community resources to help sysadmins secure HP-UX.
I've spent the last three years slowly and incrementally securing
production HP-UX systems at the network and OS levels and I think it's
time I try giving back what I learned to the community.

Chris Wong's book, "HP-UX 11i Security" is a nice to have in my
bookshelf, but it doesn't go into much detail beyond what is already
documented in the standard HP-UX documentation. As for Kevin Steves'
"Building a Bastion HP-UX Host" paper, it has been really useful, but
it is becoming outdated and it goes way too far by removing lots of
software that would be needed in a production environment.

My approach when securing systems is going further than Wong while
being less paranoid than Steves. It's nice to secure a system in a
lab, but in a mission-critial and clustered production environment,
you must cope with lots of variables that these guys do not
necessarily consider in their cookbooks.

My question is, if I start spending hours over the next months writing
up HTML documentation, would anybody be actually interested in reading
and contributing to this stuff?

And do you have any suggestions on some free authoring software that
could help me do this quickly and easily? (No, I don't have the time
to learn LaTeX). Or else I'll have to rely on MS-Word and I would
prefer something that outputs clean HTML.

Thanks for your feedback

Olivier S. Masse
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/osm

>
> And do you have any suggestions on some free authoring software that
> could help me do this quickly and easily? (No, I don't have the time
> to learn LaTeX). Or else I'll have to rely on MS-Word and I would
> prefer something that outputs clean HTML.
>

Have you looked at:
http://www.nvu.com/ ?

regards,
Richard

> Have you looked at:
> http://www.nvu.com/ ?
>
> regards,
> Richard

I didn't know about this new nvu thing. I looked at the screenshots
and features and it seems to be oriented more towards editing web
pages than documents. I think I'll take a look at AbiWord. If it
outputs readable HTML (which Word doesn't in my opinion), I'll use it.

Thanks

On 20 Jul 2004 17:30:34 -0700, omasse@iname.com (Olivier S. Masse)
wrote:

>My question is, if I start spending hours over the next months writing
>up HTML documentation, would anybody be actually interested in reading
>and contributing to this stuff?

I'd read it and contribute.. I'm sure this isn't as secure as you
would like but here ya go:
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/batcave/ServerBuilds.htm

Doug

http://home.tampabay.rr.com/batcave/unixnotes.htm

Hey;

Yes, I'd be more than interested in reading your take on securing
HP systems. I have a number of lessons learned that I've posted
at www.olearycomputers.com/ll.html. If you select the search
link and search for "hp installation", you'll get my generic
installation checklist which, I hope, does a pretty good job of
securing an HP box. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Doug

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O'Leary Computer Enterprises
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Hey,

As far as html editing tools, I use vi; works like a champ!
Your mileage may vary.

Doug


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Senior UNIX Admin
O'Leary Computer Enterprises
dkoleary@olearycomputers.com (w) 630-904-6098 (c) 630-248-2749
resume: http://www.olearycomputers.com/resume.html