On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Tony Lambiris wrote:
> Yeah, I knew the Senior Admin of that box. He was a nice guy, but he didn't
> know anything about Linux. When I first went to Keene, it was running Slackware
> setup by this kid Jamie Fullerton(sp?) who definately knew his stuff. Then
> something happened (can't remember what), and Shilo decided to install Red Hat.
> First of all, that was probably his first mistake. I just read on Slashdot that
> Red Hat 7.0 had over like 2,500 documented bugs, or something outrageous like
> that. I'm not saying Red Hat can't be locked down, but it is definately the
> last distribution I would look at for a server environment. That, and coupled
> with the fact he didn't know how to secure a box made for an easy target. He
> always installed the defaults in Red Hat (I watched him install Red Hat one
> time), and didn't take care to remove anything he wasn't using or didn't need.
> During the first few weeks, I gave him some friendly pointers on making the box
> a little more secure without going into stuff like suid binaries, or editing
> his fstab, and he replied back saying that he didn't appriciate me trying to
> tell him how to do his job. Perhaps it was jealousy (mind you I was a freshman,
> and he was a junior), but I guess I will never know. I think it was about that
> time when I knew Keene State College was a waste of my time and money.
> Needless to say, when that box was cracked, my name came up a few times.
> Why? I believe the main reason to be the fact that I actually _knew_ what I was
> doing in a Linux environment. I do wish the KSCLUG all the luck in the world
> with their Linux ventures, it's unfortunate that they can't connect the linux
> box to the outside world, because IMHO, it should be the admin's fault, not the
> colleges, because a Linux box can be secured, as long as the admin knows what
> he/she is doing.
> </rant> :)
MAN that was hard to read... as a courtesy to the rest of us, I would ask
that you please make some effort to paragraph, especially if you want to
be heard. Big dense blocks of text make for difficult reading, and will
often be ignored by people who don't want to take the time. Also, please
only quote relevant ideas, as it will reduce the size of your messages. (I
include the complete text of your message here only to help drive home my
point.)
Though here in New England internet access is wide-spread and pretty
cheap, there are still people who used metered lines, so every unnecessary
character you quote makes your messages more expensive for someone, as
well as making your messages that much harder to read.
Thanks
--
Derek Martin
Senior System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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