> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > and even then there are about a dozen different ways to find the OS and > the release ...
[If you are going to use outlook express, please, please, download and use OE-Quotefix - http://www.jump.to/oe-quotefix - or the quoting starts to look really ugly] On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 10:09, tarundeep wrote: > like what sort of ways?? suresh@tinlc [667] ~$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) for starters. Then you can get a pretty good idea from this. suresh@tinlc [668] ~$ uname -a Linux tinlc.outblaze.com 2.4.18-17.7.x #1 Tue Oct 8 13:33:14 EDT 2002 i686 unknown Definitive test - suresh@tinlc [679] ~$ rpm -qi redhat-release Name : redhat-release Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 7.3 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 1 Build Date: Thu 18 Apr 2002 11:49:31 PM HKT Install date: Tue 15 Oct 2002 01:40:11 AM HKT Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: redhat-release-7.3-1.src.rpm Size : 618877 License: GPL Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : The Red Hat Linux release file. Description : The redhat-release package identifies the release of Red Hat Linux. This is for redhat. Other distributions have similar mechanisms. What you are trying is called "security by obscurity" - and a pitiful attempt at that. Remember - "security by obscurity is no security at all" If your students or anybody wants to break into your machine, redhat 7.2 - which you use, I think - has dozens of security holes they can take their pick from. Regardless of whether or not you hide the OS version. -suresh ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
