thoughts on UNIX and older systems

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Sun Jan 17 19:39:17 1999

>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

Actually I stated the versions were Red Hat 5.1 for Linux and either 2.3 or
2.4 for OPENBSD. Personally I don't think of OpenBSD as a specific
BSD-based distro, more as one of the BSDish OS's, but I guess it's true
that it is a specific distro, and it's purpose is security. However, there
doesn't seem to be a Linux distro concerned with security.

>ANY network services turned on by default. So which Linux distribution

Now that I think about it I probably am turning on the networking portition
and not even thinking about, since I'm heavily networked. Plus you do have
to actually give it some info before the networking will work. Still it
does turn on a lot of stuff I don't care about. I like Red Hat, but really
wish it wouldn't turn on anything that's installed by default, which it
appears to do.

>(and what version) were you running, and what serious problems did saint
>find?

There were a couple things with known vulnerabilities, and it had a lot
more services it was providing that were potential openings for an attack.
I don't remember the specifics, just that there was almost a page of stuff
for Linux and a couple items for OPENBSD.

                                Zane
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Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 19:39:17 GMT

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