Suggestion for a new subforum: Security

[Harold]

I was trying to locate the right place to what I'd like to say and I missed a "Security forum". Please, consider about it.

"What I'd like to say" is that I had been trying to spot which process was constantly reading/writing to the hard disk. In the end, it happened to be the "check promiscuous cards" (surely misspelled, sorry). Now I got it disabled and accesses to HD has fallen down dramatically, aside not adding a entry to auth.log each single minute.

[5]

+1 most definitely

to have a fancy car and leave it lying around in the street is inviting menace.

there has to be a part on security advice/concern/etc

[Ramchu]

Lots of information on the net concerning security for linux.

http://www.linuxtopia.org/LinuxSecurity/index.html

[5]

thats great, but part of forum dedicated to the idea.

quite frankly, i need not check the forum for anything, internet is one happy place, so since we have other more trivial (nothing is really trivial) things around, why not something serious as security, so we bunch up some stuff all together?


thanks for the link btw

[QQ_ghost]

Also, one needs to keep in mind that people that are new to Linux will not understand the nuances in differentiation between distributions. A little help translating to our file/folder layout would be appreciated greatly!  It can be a lode of work for a new user trying to look at another forum and try unsuccessfully to get a setting to work, when our files/folders are not even close.

I myself am trying to study security on Linux in my spare time, but having to translate a technique to PCLOS can be tiresome and/or tedious considering my lack of background in the area.  If we had a ""Security" section, I would lurk and post there often as it is my main interest.  +1!

[Neal ManBear]

If you have security questions, post them. Not in a suggestion, tips or discussion section but in help. You'll get answers.

[AndrzejL]

Hmmmm interesting idea... +1 for the Security section.

Lets call it Paranoia Zone or AndrzejL's Safe Place... or Poopstorm Shelter...

Andy

[Hootiegibbon]

MMM I am not so sure that a dedicated security section is a good idea

Mainly due to the fact that Andy is bad enough as it is, having an entire section would feed his demons (daemons?[sic]to the point of bursting..... not pretty I imagine.

Seriously though should there be a security concern it would be better served/answered within the most appropriate sub forum  perhaps a prefix [security] could be used in the subjects header to identify it as a security question instead of a normal help question.

Jase