Hi,

There aren't many community resources to help sysadmins secure HP-UX.
I've spent the last three years slowly and incrementally securing
production HP-UX systems at the network and OS levels and I think it's
time I try giving back what I learned to the community.

Chris Wong's book, "HP-UX 11i Security" is a nice to have in my
bookshelf, but it doesn't go into much detail beyond what is already
documented in the standard HP-UX documentation. As for Kevin Steves'
"Building a Bastion HP-UX Host" paper, it has been really useful, but
it is becoming outdated and it goes way too far by removing lots of
software that would be needed in a production environment.

My approach when securing systems is going further than Wong while
being less paranoid than Steves. It's nice to secure a system in a
lab, but in a mission-critial and clustered production environment,
you must cope with lots of variables that these guys do not
necessarily consider in their cookbooks.

My question is, if I start spending hours over the next months writing
up HTML documentation, would anybody be actually interested in reading
and contributing to this stuff?

And do you have any suggestions on some free authoring software that
could help me do this quickly and easily? (No, I don't have the time
to learn LaTeX). Or else I'll have to rely on MS-Word and I would
prefer something that outputs clean HTML.

Thanks for your feedback

Olivier S. Masse
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/osm