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Chapter 4. LIDS Administration

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4.1. How do I set my LIDS password?
4.2. How do I change my LIDS password once it is set?
4.3. What is a LIDS free session and how do I create one?
4.4. I created a LIDS free session, but LIDS still appears to be active! What's wrong?
4.5. How do I tell LIDS to reload its configuration files?
4.6. Help!!! My system is totally unusable! What do I do?
4.7. I've updated/moved a system binary. How do I tell LIDS that the file changed/moved?
4.8. OK, without rebooting, how do I completely disable LIDS?
4.9. What does it mean to "seal the kernel"?
4.10. How do I view the status of my LIDS system?
4.11. How do I configure the port scan detector in LIDS?
4.12. What are the subject and object in a LIDS ACL?
4.13. Can I enable/disable a system capability without modifying /etc/lids/lids.cap and reloading the configuration files?
4.14. I've reconfigured my LIDS ACLs, but my changes don't seem to take effect. What's wrong?
4.15. Why won't lidsconf -L list my ACLs?
4.16. Is there anyway to reduce the number of LIDS violations that get reported on the console?
4.17. Should I be concerned about the LD_PRELOAD environment variable with LIDS?
4.18. When I boot up, the message "read password file error" appears. How do I fix the problem?
4.19. How do I check if LIDS is enabled/disabled??
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Nice, what do all those capabilities mean? How do I set my LIDS password?