Alex,<div><br></div><div>Just wondering, but what student organization is it? I am a little biased here, but I would recommend installing CentOS over Debian, but I&#39;m sure that others on this mailing list will disagree with me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This guide should be a good starting point for what you are looking to do:<a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/centos-5.1-server-lamp-email-dns-ftp-ispconfig">http://www.howtoforge.com/centos-5.1-server-lamp-email-dns-ftp-ispconfig</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/centos-5.1-server-lamp-email-dns-ftp-ispconfig"></a>The NSA has really good guides on securing Operating Systems, here is the one for RHEL/CentOS: <a href="http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml#linux2">http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml#linux2</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml#linux2"></a>Hopefully this gets you on the right track, if you have any further questions please ask.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Conner<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Alex Camilo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:alex.camilo@gmail.com">alex.camilo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The student organization i belong to has recently been entrusted with a retired dell power edge 2650 rack mount server. Me and another club member are going to be in charge of setting up and maintaining the server. I&#39;m pretty sure there is a lot of information i&#39;m simply not aware of and i was wondering if anyone with IT experience would be willing to give me a few pointers.<br>

<br>My current plan is to install a minimal system (prefferably debian based) install the services i need (LAMP) and then harden the box with a set of restrictive iptables rules and keep up to date with security updates.<br>

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