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Explain Linux Security

Explain Security features Linux System ?. Linux OS can be represented in the following with three layers. User, System and kernel.Kernel ,Consist of all the operating system resources such as file system ,memory, input/output modules and libraries.The System layer consist of system resources such as Application System interface (API). And the User layer consist of all the user resources will reside such as application programs. Linux is a multi-users and multi-tasking OS. Single Linux OS can provide services for more than one user at any time either locally and/or remotely. Every user has their own profile with custom settings that can be set by the user herself for the permitted settings or enforced by Root from the system side. For every user, there will be multi process running ‘concurrently’ for him,locally and/or remotely and it is said multi-tasking OS. In another simple word, single user can run many programs at any time. In order to optimize the resources such