First: NO system is secure. Security holes are not in Linux but rather in the Applications that make up the various flavours of Linux.
You can either use one of the cheap Linux distro to find that its virtually full of security loopholes ( including buggy softwares installed on it) or u can buy one of the commercial Linux distro which are very secure by default ... if ur looking out for secure distro of linux i recommend : EnGarde Linux ... or SME Server form E-Smith.
Vipul.
From: "tarundeep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [LIH] Re: telnet prompt off
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:04:24 +0530
i thougght it be a secure system..
can u throw some light on security holes in linux and how a good sys admin
or a good programmer avoid these holes
and make secure apps
any URL or idea would be useful
regards
tarun
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From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Re: telnet prompt off
> > ----- 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
>
>
>
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