i agree..
louie miranda (axishift.ath.cx)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "likot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Sys V and BSD
>
> --- Leo Pascua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > BSD is secured than Slackware Sys. co'z , i'm using
> > BSD for five years
>
> secured? is it not that security relies more on the
> one administering rather than the OS?
>
> Yes bsd's have a reputation of being secure ( openbsd
> ?!? ) but then again this OS's has proven to be
> vulnerable to security breaches too.
>
> 1. in our years of experience hopefully we grew a clue
> that there is no such thing as a secured (i.e.
> uncrackable system)
>
> 2. linux perse ( as in the kernel ) is secure ( not so
> many security issues as i know of ) it is the packages
> included with the distros, such as Bind, sendmail,
> inetd, telnet, and so forth and so on. ( ie. like the
> root compromise with Bind and sendmail years ago they
> are OS independent whether you run bsds or any
> variant/clone of unixes )
>
> 3. bad administration leads to security breaches (
> THIS IS OS INDEPENDENT)
>
> my point
>
> fanaticism to an os leads even the wise astray.
>
> pero isipin natin is this related to the main thread?
> the question i think was whats the diff. between the
> sysv and bsd style init
>
> well if i remember right from the book i read *nix
> system administration ( a book given to me by a friend
> tonton rabena ) sabi nila mas maganda daw ang sysv
> style kasi malinis :) but basically sa trabaho pareho
> lang (sysv init scripts are kept in /etc/rc.d/init.d
> and symlinked to their respective runlevels ie
> /etc/rc.d/rcX.d ( x= 0 .. 6, redhat has 9 runlevels :)
> BSD style are kept in /etc like rc.blah )
>
>
> AND one thing .. bsd's are more secure than slackware
> sys. NOT because you use it for 5 years ( thats what
> i understand from your statement )
>
> it is more secure out of the box because the people
> behind the bsd os development made it so ( let the
> credit go to them, they earned it )
>
> a round of applause to the opensource developers :)
>
> -Dek
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