Prev | Current Page 955 | Next

Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"

It??™s up to you to then type the command and add
the options you want.
FIGURE 19-1
BackTrack organizes graphical and command-line security tools.
The BackTrack CD is included on the DVD that comes with this book. Refer to Appendix
A for information on running BackTrack.
SystemRescueCd
The SystemRescueCd (www.sysresccd.org) is aimed squarely at recovering crashed systems. Tools
included on this distribution include those specifically for repairing and saving your data, such as:
 Disk partitioning tools??”You can check, add, remove, move, and resize disk partitions
with tools such as parted and qtparted.
 Logical Volume Management tools??”For file systems created with LVM, there are lvm
and evms tools. (Logical volume management lets you add space to areas of a file system
without changing the physical partitions.)
ON the DVD-ROM
497
Running Bootable Linux Distributions 19
 Security tools??”Check whether the data on your system has been compromised with
tools such as chkrootkit (to check for software installed by hackers to let them access
your system), as well as clamav and clamd (to scan for existing and incoming viruses).
Use nmap (scan network computers for open ports) and nc (the Netcat utility for checking
connections to remote hosts) for checking network security.


Pages:
943 944 945 946 947 948 949 950 951 952 953 954 955 956 957 958 959 960 961 962 963 964 965 966 967