Server Security

[Nick H]

Anybody who manages their own server or a bunch of servers that gets sick of securing it and keep it all up-to-date, do what I do...I use the ELS program (Easy Linux Security). You install it, it secures everything the first time you run it. Then, run it once a week to check for updates.

Simple, eh. No, this isn't my script, so don't ask me for help with it . Just posting it here as a resource.

http://www.servermonkeys.com/els.php

Installation Instructions (For Easy Access)
wget --output-document=installer.sh http://servermonkeys.com/projects/els/installer.sh
chmod +x installer.sh
sh installer.sh
rm -f installer.sh
els --all

Run This Once A Week
els --update
els --all

 

[cyanide]

wow, that is a pretty cool script, Nick

I'll have to remember it

 

[AquariusADMIN]

Ahhh! The secret’s out of the bag. We have been using this for a few months to get dedicated servers on the rack faster for clients. This took a lot of the process out of going through and installing everything by hand as our engineers was way to busy to build a script like this at the time.

 

[MMarko]

This is great script!

 

[HMarker]

Thank you for recommendation. It makes all necessary security setup needed for modern linux server security administration.

 

[Chief]

This helps secure our servers? Pretty nice deal I'll have to look into that later.

 

[SQNWK]

That looks like a pretty interesting script, has anyone tried it out on FreeBSD?

 

[george7004]

Thanks for the script! Nice find!