Arsenic wrote: > As far as whether or not I should leave SEL off, that you guys don't use > it (and in fact, Robert had never heard of it) leads me to believe it's > not really necessary but... > (here comes my rant) I think part of my problem when it comes to things > like this is that the people who make/use Linux don't seem to be very > vocal about security. Maybe I'm wrong about that but every time I ask > someone a security question, I get an answer like "Don't worry about it, > Linux is safer than Windows".
Heh! Having FreeBSD on my desktop in addition to Red Hat Enterprise 3 and Windows 2000, and two OpenBSD servers exposed to the Internet, I err on the side of paranoia, where security is concerned.<g> A lot has been written about *nix security, and I am a serious reader of what was and is being written. I'm sure that Google will point the way for you, as it has for me. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
