Every distribution (Linux or *BSD) has security risks, since they all rely
on a lot of third-party code. As problems become known, the (responsible)
distributions release updates. Though I'm no Red Hat specialist, I know RH
does this. You can find them, for example, at Metalab, in
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/updates/6.2/
You can also find them, for 6.2 and older versions, at RH's own ftp site,
though I find the performance of it so poor that I'm unwilling even to spend
the time to track down the exact URL.
In any case ... whether you stay with RH or move to another distribution,
you need to join its security-announcements list (I imagine RH has one; if
not, join a general-purpose list like bugtraq) and install patches as they
become available.
In addition, RH may have some default setting that make it vulnerable.
Examples are probrams set to suid that don't need to be and unneeded
services in /etc/inetd.conf . Someone more familiar than I with RH's
defaults would have to give you spscific guidence here; for general advice,
try the Security HowTo at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO.html .
At 02:40 AM 7/7/00 -0400, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
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>
>I have grown on RedHat and am very hesitant about installing another
>distribution. What are the ways to "make it safer"? Is there any place
>that I can read about this?
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Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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