On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> redhat is a nice distro - however if your security minded ( and all .edu's
> should be ) put all your linux boxes on thier own network using and have a
> box doing NAT....your public machines...use openBSD...simple as
> that.....redhat is leaning toward being a desktop distro...and NT isn't
> secure....its a DOS waiting to happen....
I don't necessarily agree with that... RedHat CAN be secure, if you spend
the time. I've been using RedHat connected to the internet for years, and
I've only had a machine rooted on me once (due to something stupid that I
did -- overlooking the fact that if we didn't have crackers this wouldn't
be a problem). I'll give you that it's not exceptionally secure BY
DEFAULT, but anyone who is concerned about security but relies on defaults
to be secure is a bit foolish.
--
Derek Martin
Senior System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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