Hardening Doc Update

[Stuart Ellis]

On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 21:42 -0800, tuxxer wrote:
> > 
> > 3. You have a section on disabling/locking user accounts, but don't
> > mention that some of these users are not installed unless the packages
> > that use them (e.g. mysql-server, httpd) are installed. It's probably
> > worth a small section (or at least a <para>) to talk about package
> > selection during installation.
> 
> Not a bad idea.  I thought that this should be something more for the
> Installation Guide, but I think that is still in progress.  But I might
> be able to mention something here and then reference the Install Guide
> for more detail or something.

The Installation Guide text is fairly broad-brush, because it just
explains the options presented in the installer.  This is the Package
Selection text:

http://www.se.clara.net/fedora/fedora-install-guide-en/ch-
packageselection.html

The needs of the advanced user who requires details about the mechanics
of Fedora/Linux have to be balanced somehow against the need of the new
user for something they can step through without being overloaded with
too much information in a single dose.  I think that we all hit this
problem...

The best solution that I could think of was to keep the text of the main
Installation Guide as self-contained and focused as possible, and punt
systems details to an (unwritten) chapter or appendix that can be read
after the installation has been completed.  

I'm not sure what the right format for this would be - perhaps a kind of
"Anatomy of Fedora" chapter with one section per item, each section
centred around an element of the graphical interface (so that the reader
has some reference point), with the text as jargon-free as possible, a
nod to the appropriate command-line utility and a link to a document
that provides full details.  E.g. the SELinux section would talk about
SELinux referencing the system-config-securitylevel utility with a link
at the end to the SELinux FAQ.  Along the same lines, the section on
accounts would differentiate between user accounts, the root account,
and system accounts.