best practices for administration

[Erik Nørgaard]

David Bear wrote:
> Since the BSD community seems to be more security conscious than other
> (read windows system administrators) groups, I wanted to see if anyone
> here would have any pointers to best practices documents when 
> administering ANY operating system, not just FreeBSD. I am assuming
> that many of you must manage other operating systems as well.

You can find some BCP's and FYI's at frc-editor.org. ISO-17799/BS-7799 
is the international standard on information security, and there is the 
ITIL library.

There is no general answer to your question as much is context 
dependent. For example:

What do you need a user to present before giving an account? How do you 
verify that the information presented is valid?

Soon, you are faced with different classes of accounts: Employees, 
consultants, customers, and different levels of privileges. And who has 
privilege to grant others access to what?

Cheers, Erik
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