Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dan Sugalski [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> *>
> *>If you go redhat (And I'd go and pay for the distribution), the very
> *>*first* thing you should do is connect up to redhat's support site and
> *>update everything. There isn't a redhat release (nor any other linux
> *>distro, AFAIK) that's really safe. Average compromise time for one on the
> *>net full-time's reported to be around 48 hours by some folks.
>
> Why haven't the linux distributers addressed this monsterous problem?
> OpenBSD and NetBSD both have far more reasonable and secure default
> installs and I would think it wouldn't be an extreme feat of effort to do
> the same for Linux...maybe I'm just guessing but users should really
> demand that. Wasn't there an NSA 'secure linux' ditro somewhere?
>
Following this way off thread I have found that the _Securing and
Optimizing Linux Red Hat Edition - A Hands on Guide_ from
http://www.linuxdoc.org/guides.html is a good resource in securing the 5
linux machines that I have been given ownership of - or maybe I just
decieving myself thinking that it has helped :-) It was written for
RH6.2, but I have used it also for RH7.0 and RH7.1.
--
Vinny
