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UNIX System Management and Security: Differences between Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX

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Overview Understanding the capabilities and limitations of an operating system, its software installation and management procedures and how to configure and manage other system software is a key ingredient of keeping systems secure. This paper discusses the differences in system configuration, management and security between some of the most common versions of UNIX (Red Hat Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX), including management and security tools available on these systems.

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Publisher	SANS Institute	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	February 2003	Downloads	1901
Format	White Papers
Topics	UNIX, Security Management, AIX

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