Alexander Reelsen wrote the original document.

added more info to the original doc.

Robert van der Meulen provided the quota paragraphs and many good ideas.

Ethan Benson corrected the PAM paragraph and had some good ideas.

Dariusz Puchalak contributed some information to several chapters.

Gaby Schilders contributed a nice Genius/Paranoia idea.

Era Eriksson smoothed out the language in a lot of places and contributed the checklist appendix.

Philipe Gaspar wrote the LKM information.

Yotam Rubin contributed fixes for many typos as well as information regarding bind versions and MD5 passwords.

Francois Bayart provided the appendix describing how to set up a bridge firewall.

Joey Hess wrote the section describing how Secure Apt works on the Debian Wiki.

Martin F. Krafft wrote some information on his blog regarding fingerprint verification which was also reused for the Secure Apt section.

Francesco Poli did an extensive review of the manual and provided quite a lot of bug reports and typo fixes which improved and helped update the document.

All the people who made suggestions for improvements that (eventually) were included here (see Section 1.2, “Where to get the manual (and available formats)”).

(Alexander) All the folks who encouraged me to write this HOWTO (which was later turned into a manual).

The whole Debian project.