--- Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Christopher Mahan wrote:
> 
> > customer. Let me tell you how it is from the trenches: Sun stuff
> > sucks. It's much better than Microsoft or IBM, but it still blows
> > chunks. 
> > We're using Solaris 8, and most of the admins here are clueless,
> 
> Solaris 8?  Well, that explains a lot.  Have you looked at Solaris
> 10?
> The difference between Solaris 8 and 10 is like chalk and cheese. 
> You
> can't possible criticise Solaris in the present tense while talking
> about Solaris 8 (past tense, perhaps).

As I answered another, I'm not saying Solaris 10 isn't great, just
that we're stuck with 8.

> Also, unless I am mistaken, Sun didn't bundle SSH with Solaris
> until
> Solaris 9.

Didn't know that.  Well, we have it here.

 
> Seems to me that you're advocating security by obscurity.  It never
> works.  Brute force attacks won't bother trying to determine what
> platform you're using, they'll just try 'em all.

Indeed.
But to quote Sun Tzu: "Where you are weak, appear strong. Likewise,
where you are wrong, appear weak."

Chris Mahan
818.943.1850 cell
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