Security issue - just getting started

[John Murphy]

Jeff Lewis wrote:

>I don't understand the concept of userland? (Userland vs ???)

If it's vs anything it would be kernelspace I guess.
Userland is the rich toolset, the configuration mechanisms,
the man pages and documentation.  Everything, in fact, which
a user may interact with and is part of the base install.

>Where can I get started on understanding FreeBSD security?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security.html

>I want to lock down my Apache based webserver properly. 

I'm sure that is a fine art.  The balance between allowing what
your users want and keeping all the bad guys out may not be easy
to find.  Nearly nine million google hits for 'apache security'
though ;)

-- 
John.