On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:11:30AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> > It involves placing a lot of trust and control in the hands of another,
> > but a distribution like Ubuntu allows someone ELSE to become disgruntled
> > trying to manage most of this stuff. I just set up scripts to scan for
> > vulnerabilities in my NAT router
>
> You're running Ubuntu on your router? I think that's a first... (-:
Nope, but the NAT router is the major point of vulnerability for my LAN.
Get through that and you have access to all kinds of services for which I
don't regularly babysit security advisories for.
> > (since it's the front door to my LAN) and
> > for essentials: ssh, postfix, and apache. These are big enough that I
> > need only scan a few websites, and I can do it with a small python script.
>
> Install cron-apt and you won't even have to write that script. I just
> wait for cron-apt to send me email for the four Debian machines I
> maintain.
I don't want silent updates--I want to know when an update is needed and
to see what is updated before I approve it. I am happy to offload the
work to my distribution, but not so foolish that I don't supervise their
efforts.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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