Re: security issues.....

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz>]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Thing is, _all_ of the popular distros these days are biased in favor
> of installing services by default. And they make security mistakes in
> configuration.

Hear, hear. This, IMHO, is Red Hat's biggest problem. Even the minimal
install adds lots of junk you don't need - we converted one of our on-campus
web cache machines to Red Hat using the minimal install. After that, one of
my staff spent an entire day removing unwanted junk from the system. If you
want a Linux distro equivalent to Windoze, get Red Hat.

Personally, I've gone back to my original Linux distro - the extremely
minimalist Slackware. I just don't like the default compiler, but I can
always build a working one instead...

BTW, happy new year, everyone.

Regards

Richard

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Richard Stevenson
Systems Engineer, Information Technology Services
Victoria University of Wellington
Phone: +64 4 4635051 Fax: +64 4 4635552

Being a Unix system administrator is like being a tech in a biological warfare
laboratory, except that none of the substances are labeled consistently, any
of the compounds are just as likely to kill you by themselves as they are when
mixed with one another, and it is never clear what distinction is made between
a catastrophic failure in the lab and a successful test in the field.
(--M. Tiemann)
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