From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 14 12:52:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (durham0-128.dsl.gtei.net [4.3.0.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F350837B443 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:52:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 10203 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Apr 2001 19:52:28 -0000 Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:52:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: Brett Glass Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Terry Lambert , Kris Kirby , Chip Wiegand , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010414134832.0499ff00@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As time has gone by the Registry has become (little by little) more dependable. People who don't regularly export their registry (by the same token, people who don't back up /etc often) are taking the chance, any NT administrator who _doesn't_ know that, should _not_ have that job. /joseph -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist jmallett@newgold.net www.newgold.net irc.newgold.net/#xMach xMach Core Team jmallett@xMach.org www.xMach.org On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:42 AM 4/14/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > >And what would you call the Windows registry? > > > >The only thing people can do if the registry is damaged is reinstall > >everything. That's always an option on any operating system, but > >(except in some bizarre situation) you never have to resort to that on > >FreeBSD. > > The Windows Registry is an abomination. It puts all of a system's > eggs in one fragile, insecure basket. > > --Brett Glass > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message