Table of Contents for

Practical UNIX and Internet Security, 3rd Edition

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games user, Users and Groups

games, accounts for, Open Accounts

Gangemi, G. T., Sr. (Computer Security Basics), General Computer Security

Garfinkel, Simson (PGP: Pretty Good Privacy), Cryptography Books

gas-charged fire extinguishers, Fire

Gasser, Morrie (Building a Secure Computer System), General Computer Security

gated daemon, RIP Routed: Routing Internet Protocol (UDP Port 520)

gateways, IP: The Internet Protocol (see routers)

gcore program, gcore: Dumping Core

gcov tester, Before You Finish

gdb command, gdb: Controlling a Process

gdb debugger, gcore: Dumping Core

GECOS (General Electric Computer Operating System), The /etc/passwd File

Geer, Dan, Network Providers That Network Too Well

General Electric Computer Operating System (GECOS), The /etc/passwd File

generation count, file handle, File Handles, File Handles

generators, password, Password Generators

GETATTR function (RPC), The NFS Protocol

gethostbyaddresses() system call, DNS under Unix

gethostbyname() system call, DNS under Unix

getopt() system call, Things to Avoid

getpass() system call, Things to Avoid, Tips on Using Passwords

getpwuid() system call, Including or excluding specific accounts

gets() system call, The Lesson of the Internet Worm, Things to Avoid

getservbyname() system call, Calling getservbyname( ), Things to Avoid

getty program, Logging In

Gibson, William, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”

All Tomorrow’s Parties, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”

Burning Chrome, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”

Count Zero, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”

Idora, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”

Mona Lisa Overdrive, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”

Neuromancer, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”

Virtual Light, Understanding the Computer Security “Culture”

GIDs (group identifiers), Add-on Functionality Breeds Problems, Groups and Group Identifiers (GIDs)–The /etc/group file, Other IDs, Inodes, SUID and SGID, AUTH_UNIX

(see also SGID programs)

real versus effective, Other IDs

and RPC requests, AUTH_UNIX

stored in inodes, Inodes

glass walls, security aspects, Glass walls

GMT, NTP: Network Time Protocol (UDP Port 123) (see UTC)

GNU Emacs, FSF and GNU, Hidden files and directories, .emacs, Other initializations

GNU project, FSF and GNU

GNU utilities, reliability of, What he found

gnupg signatures, Software Management Systems, Upgrading Distributed Applications

goaway option, sendmail, Security concerns with SMTP banners and commands

Gollmann, Dieter (Computer Security), General Computer Security

gopher, Networking and Unix

gpg signatures, Upgrading Distributed Applications

Graff, Michael, Key search attacks

Grampp, F. T. (“UNIX Operating System Security”), Unix Security References

granularity, time, Picking a Random Seed

graphical displays, sharing with X Window System, The X Window System (TCP Ports 6000-6063)–Tunneling X with SSH

grep command, scanning su log file with, The sulog under Solaris

grounding signals, attacks by, Signal Grounding and Jamming

group disk quotas, Using quotas

group file, What Is an Operating System?, The /etc/group file, Which Files to Back Up?, Group Accounts, Monitoring File Format

monitoring, Monitoring File Format

group IDs, Add-on Functionality Breeds Problems (see GIDs)

Group table (NIS+), NIS+ Tables and Other Objects

groups, Add-on Functionality Breeds Problems, Groups and Group Identifiers (GIDs)–The /etc/group file, The /etc/group file, File Permissions, The umask Command, chgrp: Changing a File’s Group, NIS Netgroups–NIS is confused about “+”, Group Accounts, The wheel Group, Group-writable files, Chapter 5: Users, Groups, and the Superuser, Process groups and sessions

accounts for, Group Accounts

changing, chgrp: Changing a File’s Group

files writable by, Group-writable files

identifiers for, Add-on Functionality Breeds Problems (see GIDs)

NIS netgroups, NIS Netgroups–NIS is confused about “+”

passwords for, The /etc/group file

permissions for, File Permissions

process, Process groups and sessions

security checklist for, Chapter 5: Users, Groups, and the Superuser

umask for group projects, The umask Command

wheel, The wheel Group (see wheel group)

groups command, The /etc/group file

grpck command, Monitoring File Format

Grünbacher, Andreas, Access Control Lists

guest account, Open Accounts, Algorithm and Library Changes

guest user, Users and Groups

guidelines, in security policy, Guidelines