Luke Kanies wrote:
I have literally never worked at an organization that had any clue what its configurations should be, and they wouldn't know how to validate them if required by law. Most installations are not sufficiently large, and most sysadmins are not sufficiently competent to use tools like this anyway.
This dismisses an important kind of validation, sanity checks, which can occur *without* declaring policies in advance. E.g., are your settings reasonable? Do your mx records point to mail servers? Do your filesystem mounts point at fileservers? Etc. This kind of tool could be used by anyone, but we are too busy solving our own problems to provide something "practical" for people with less expertise than us, that might not be "practical" for us because we need more functionality than that. -- Dr. Alva L. Couch Associate Professor of Computer Science Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tufts University, 161 College Avenue, Medford, MA 02155 Phone: +1 (617) 627-3674 Web: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~couch _______________________________________________ lssconf-discuss mailing list lssconf-discuss@inf.ed.ac.uk http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/lssconf-discuss
