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Posted by lionking on February 4, 2010

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Posted by lionking on February 4, 2010

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Posted by lionking on February 4, 2010

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Posted by lionking on February 3, 2010

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Posted by lionking on February 3, 2010

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Posted by lionking on January 27, 2010

Administrative user

The access control mechanisms of the system may be further secured by granting administrative rights to only specific users. For each administrative user, there should be two user accounts, one to perform normal user operations, and the other to perform administrative functions. For example, if the user James is a designated administrator he should have a standard system account “james” with no special privileges and an administrative account “admin_james” with administrator rights. This provides accountability where there is more than one administrator on a system. The administrative users should be restricted from logging in to the system from network services using their administrative accounts. This further reduces the risk of the authentication credentials being compromised. To restrict remote access, the configuration of each network service will have to be altered

Posted by lionking on January 17, 2010

Malware

Viruses, trojans and other malware are relatively uncommon on the Mac OS X platform, and as a result currently present a far lower risk than on Windows systems. However, it should be highlighted that their relative absence does not mean that the operating system itself is immune from malware, only that the current combination of a low OS X install base together with the operating system’s security features, make the Mac OS X platform more unattractive than other platforms from a virus writer’s perspective. In some organisations, security policies may mandate the use of anti-virus solutions for all desktop systems, regardless of the relative absence of viruses that specifically target Mac OS X. This could help prevent a Mac OS X system from acting as a virus transmission agent in a heterogeneous computing environment. Mac OS X Server ships with the popular and free (GPL) ClamAV (clamav.net) anti-virus software for Unix. This is a command line application that is best suited to a server environment, but can also be used on the desktop. An easy to use GUI application that uses the ClamAV scanning engine is available from www.clamxav.com which may be more useful to the majority of Mac OS X desktop users. A number of well-known commercial anti-virus vendors now ship versions of their products for Mac.

Posted by lionking on January 6, 2010

Network Services

By default all networking services are disabled, which provides less opportunities for remote attackers. Enabling network services (SSH, Personal Web Sharing, FTP etc.) allows users some form of remote access to the system and should only be permitted if there is an explicit requirement for it. Tiger uses a new daemon management framework to handle system and daemon start up and control in the form of ‘launchd’. Launchd incorporates the functionality of inetd, init, mach_init and SystemStarter and promises to simplify the management of daemons on Mac OS X. In the current version (10.4), either launchd or xinetd are used to control network services, depending on the installation method chosen. The xinetd daemon is started by launchd.

If there are existing xinetd configuration files in the /etc/xinetd.d directory, then xinetd is used to start these services. However, if the configuration files are not present, then launchd is used to start the services, as configured in the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons directory. This can result in inconsistencies between systems, since systems that were upgraded from Panther will use xinetd to control network services, while systems that were cleanly installed will use launchd to control network services. Since launchd was designed as a general daemon management system, it does not offer as many security features for network services as xinetd does; such as IP based access control and limiting connections. If these security services are required then launchd can either be used together with TCP wrappers or xinetd can be used to handle network services.

Posted by lionking on December 29, 2009

File system defaults

The initial account used to administer the system, as well as any accounts created prior to changing the umask, will allow all users read access to the files in their home folders. It is recommended that this be changed so that only owners and groups have read access to these files. For all users on the system, execute the following command:

sudo chmod –R 740 /Users/username

Where username is the name of the user. This operation will have to be performed every time a new user is added to the system. This has the added effect of preventing other users from reading the contents of ~/Public and ~/Sites folders and from writing files to the ~/Public/Drop Box folder. It is recommended that the permissions on these folders be changed on a per user basis.

Posted by lionking on December 17, 2009

Mac OS X Keychain

The Mac OS X Keychain allows users and applications to store and access authentication details in one place. It uses the familiar paradigm of a keychain to store and access private authentication credentials. Users can lock or unlock the keychain with a single password; applications can only access authentication details when the keychain is unlocked. Multiple keychains can be created to group similar authentication credentials. By default, a keychain called “login” is used to store credentials used by most applications. The password for this keychain is the same as the login password and the Keychain is automatically unlocked when a user logs in and is locked again upon logout. The security of the “login” keychain can be further improved by changing its password to something other than the login password.

This will ensure that the keychain has to be explicitly unlocked before any items can be accessed and also prevents keychain items from being accessed if the login credentials are compromised. From the Keychain Access application in Applications -> Utilities, choose Edit -> Change password for Keychain “login”. A keychain should also be locked after a period of inactivity and when the system wakes from sleep. These options are accessed from the Edit -> Change settings for Keychain “login” menu in the Keychain Access application. The Keychain Access application also allows individual access controls to be placed on each key in the Keychain. Where keys grant access to particularly sensitive information, it is recommended that the access control be changed to ‘ Ask for Keychain password’