IRIX

From: Tarsi <tarsi_at_binhost.com>
Date: Thu Apr 25 02:02:47 2002

Just from personal experience:

My college used to have a rather large lab of SGI INDYs running IRIX 5.X and
they were horribly insecure. They were all hard-routed to the 'net, static
IPs and everything, and were constantly being hacked. We eventually took
them off the main line and put them behind a Linux firewall due to the
nastiness of it all. I highly recommend not leaving IRIX-based machines
sitting out in the cold unless you're VERY good at IRIX.

Tarsi

> What I've heard is a very, VERY loose security profile for the default
> install... hack proof IRIX is possible with a good admin, but the
> default load is far from secure.
>
> Bill
Received on Thu Apr 25 2002 - 02:02:47 BST