Once upon a midnight dreary, Eric Smith had spoken clearly:
>Zane wrote:
>> 'saint' found a LOT of
>> problems with Linux including a couple serious ones, there were two
>> warnings on the OpenBSD box, what were they, I had telnet and ftp turned
>> on. Linux on the other hand had all sorts of stuff turned on by default
>> that I didn't need or want, but had just never bothered to turn off.
>
>You're not describing comparable things. OpenBSD is a specific BSD-based
>distribution. I'm sure you're probably running some specific Linux
>distribution, but you don't state that. Linux by itself doesn't have
>ANY network services turned on by default. So which Linux distribution
>(and what version) were you running, and what serious problems did saint
>find?
Actually, I believe he did state "red-hat" which in the opinions of most of
the system administrators that I deal with on other lists, is the most
insecure out-of-box, and also installs the most unneccessary packages which
later need to be removed by hand.
I've been running Caldera OpenLinux, and while I've not run saint upon my
boxes, the services file & whatnot in /etc seem to have most (not all -
there is no substitute for good sysadminning) unneccessary things disabled,
like not being able to FTP as root and whatnot.
For barebones installs on old equipment, IMHO Slackware is the best, but
for security's sake I cannot tell you... I was running it at home, wholly
offline to the world, so security was not an issue.
HTH,
"Merch"
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 15:49:07 GMT