# Category:Security

Users and groups are used on GNU/Linux for access control. The superuser (root) has complete access to the operating system and its configuration; it is intended for administrative use only. Unprivileged users can use the su and sudo programs for controlled privilege escalation.

This subject of security includes a wide range of topics.

## Related categories

- Category:Internet Applications (English)
- Category:Networking (English)

## Subcategories

This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.

### F

- Firewalls

### P

- Proxy servers

### S

- Secure Shell

### V

- Virtual Private Network

## Pages in category "Security"

The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total.

### A Access Control Lists AIDE Allow users to shutdown AppArmor Arch CVE Monitoring Team Arch package security Audit framework Automatic login to virtual console ### B Bankid Benchmarking disk wipes ### C Capabilities Change username ClamAV ClamSMTP: An SMTP Virus Filter ConsoleKit Create a Kiosk User CVE-2014 ### D DeveloperWiki:Package signing Disk encryption Disk Quota Dm-crypt Dm-crypt/Device encryption Dm-crypt/Drive preparation Dm-crypt/Encrypting a non-root file system Dm-crypt/Encrypting an entire system Dm-crypt/Specialties Dm-crypt/Swap encryption Dm-crypt/System configuration DNSCrypt DNSSEC | ### D cont. Dual boot with Windows when SafeBoot is installed ### E ECryptfs EncFS Estonian ID-card ### F FiSH Frandom ### G Gajim-otr GnuPG Grsecurity ### H Haveged Honeyd ### K Ksplice ### L LDAP authentication Linux Containers Lxc-systemd ### M MAC Address Spoofing Metasploit Framework ### N Nessus NIS ### O OpenSSL OpenVAS ### P Pam abl Pam mount Parental Control Pass Password Recovery PaX Polkit Prey Proot | ### R Random number generation Realtime process management Removing System Encryption Router Rsyslog ### S S/KEY Authentication Securely wipe disk Security SELinux SFTP chroot SHA password hashes Snort Squid Su Sudo Suricata ### T Tcplay Tomb TOMOYO Linux TPM TrueCrypt ### U Umask Users and groups ### V Vncserver Vsys ### W Wireshark ### X X11vnc ### Y Yubikey

Category:

- System administration