--- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.christophermahan.com/ __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
