On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, at 7:46pm, Bayard R. Coolidge wrote: > And, to bring all this back on topic, I'm still trying to figure out why > folks are straining to retrofit the OpenSSH patches onto Red Hat 6.2.
Speak for youself. :-) We (meaing the company I work for, collectively) are not straining. As I said, with a current RHL 6.2 system, compiling OpenSSH is absurdly easy. As for why we are still using RHL 6.2: Because, by-and-large, it does what we need. Switching to a new release would just double our overhead in terms of configuration management and maintenance, and for almost zero benefit. (This is on the server side, mind you -- the latest KDE or GNOME means nothing to a box that never runs X11. The Linux desktops we have in the office are running newer software.) > Trying to maintain a RH 6.2 system to that level of protection [having the > latest security patches installed] is a frightening prospect... Not really. ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/ has everything you need. Red Hat is generally quite good at providing quick updates when vulnerabilities are discovered. As I've said many times, one of the reasons I switched to Linux was to get off the upgrade treadmill. Same principle applies here. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
