-----Original Message----- From: Ajay Venkatesh [mailto:ajay_nv@hotmail.com] <snip>

Next , There is no package or script in the CDs like "hard" or "harden_suse" , could this be a third party application. and if so where can I find it.

I used to pick these up from http://www.suse.de/~marc O hope they are still there. However I do my own hardening these days so I do not use the script anymore.

and one more, the hardening script , will it be the same for all the versions of SuSE ( i.e 8.0 , 8.0 and 9.0 etc)

Someone has pointed out that it hasn't been updated in a while so it may be wiser to read the actual script that implement what it does yourself or edit it to fit your system rather than just run it. Noah.