Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:10:35 -0500 From: Jamie Oulman <jamie@techsquare.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just lost one to Linux. Compaq server support. Message-ID: <20011220011035.A18793@techsquare.com> In-Reply-To: <a05101004b846e457d3fb@[10.0.1.48]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 01:46:36AM %2B0100 References: <20011219192206.J5735-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> <a05101004b846e457d3fb@[10.0.1.48]>
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> Cool. So, you can look forward to having your machines
> compromised by li0n2 (or whatever), and having to scrub and
> re-install every single machine on your network, because as part of
> the rootkit they also installed a password sniffer, and used the
> machine as a launching point for other break-in attempts.
doing a redhat upgrade is about as fun as doing
a win98 -> win2k upgrade. ie. dont even try. I
know alot of people still running 6.2 for this
very reason. that and redhat has yet to come
close to a release thats as stable as 6.2. i
think mainly because vendors are quick to release
when the latest and greatest kernel/gnome/kde
comes out. im thankfull the BSD's have diffrent
idea's on what should contitute a new release.
redhat like most everything else. can be secured.
if properly maintained and kept up to date. the
problem is most people who run redhat and linux
in general dont know what they have running. its
amazing how many default installs there are out
there. is it the vendors fault for distributing
insecure software? partly yes. but it is also
up to the admin to keep things current and patched.
2c
-jamie
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