Re: [ossig] RE: Johor State Goverment Site defaced

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 21:38, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote:
> RedHat hasn't done well here; the RHN was a great tool to patch; better than
> anything else at least for the casual user. May I consider the demise of
> RedHat Linux X.X and the bringing down of RHN a great disservice to the
> community and the rest of the world ? No need to start a flamewar here, but
> with 5 machines running RedHat, at one moment suddenly I couldn't demote my
> account from 'Basic' to 'None'. Which left me with 4 unpatched systems. But
> not for long. fdisk is a trusted method to bring such systems back to a good
> level of security.

Again, the fedora legacy project at http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ will do
you good.

> I also fully agree with Soo Hoe on the need to educate the new converts on
> security. OSSS 101 instead of OSS 101, eventually ?

I have proposed that the root user be disabled by default, and the user
must consciously want to re-enable the root account. Stolen from Mac OS
X, we might give this a shot.

SELinux will be added to Fedora Core 2, so again, more security will be
added (though with the current pace, it may load disabled by default).

> Uwe
> 
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