1.9. Credit

Special thanks go to:

• Xie Huagang - Technical editor and LIDS author.

  • LIDS version question.

  • Subject/object question.

• Philippe Biondi - LIDS author.

• Andy Harrelson - Grammar/spelling editor.

• Rob Willis - Open-SSH, OpenLDAP, and Port Sentry configuration examples.

• Fred Mobach - Inspiration and corrections.

• David Ranch - I used his excellent Linux IP Masquerade HOW-TO as an SGML template. His disclaimer also proved useful.

• Austin Gonyou -

  • Valuable feedback on FAQ.

  • Alternative fix to the lidsadm compile problem.

  • Warning about updating the inode of the /etc/passwd file.

• Pavel Epifanov - For a simple fix to the lidsadm compile problem.

• Justus Pendleton - Samba configuration example.

• Nenad Micic

  • For the hidden process kill script example.

  • His C program to kill hidden processes at shutdown.

  • LD_PRELOAD warning.

• Bill Phillips - For pointing out many reference errors in the PDF version.

• Szymon Juraszczyk

  • LD_PRELOAD warning.

• Lorn Kay -

  • Heartbeat configuration for Linux HA.

  • Sendmail configuration.

• Bill McKenzie - Additions to Portsentry configuration.

• Sander Klein

  • Question about checking if LIDS is enabled or disabled.

  • Apcupsd configuration.

  • Pump configuration.

  • Snort configuration.

  • getty configuration.

  • login configuration.

  • su configuration.

• David Spreen - Time restriction warning and restricting crontab access.

• Thomas Linden - For providing his BIND 9.x Configuration

• Mathias Gygax - For providing sample configurations for exim, qpopper, and proftp.

• Dimitri Goldin - For pointing out that the LIDS password can be obtained by root users if /dev/pts is mounted and left unprotected.

• BigSam - Innd config.

• Ralf Dreibrodt - Innd config.

• Steve Bremer - For starting to write this document which helped me a lot when I started using LIDS.

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