Al,
I really haven't found configuring a mandrake box for server duties and
making it secure anything of a nightmare. If you're layering your security
it's just a matter of getting everything in place, closing all the right
doors, setting up the firewall and getting your portsentry and other odds
and ends active and running. All the usual server stuff.
--
Mark
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 Al Baker spake passionately saying:
> It's not like Linux, specifically Mandrake, makes a
> BAD server, you can make a nice fast server with the
> right know how. OpenBSD just provides instant
> out-of-the-box security w/o the configuration
> [nightmares] you might go through to achieve the same
> on Mandrake. I choose mandrake over *BSD (Free/Open)
> because I like the larger support/innovative
> community, and I like LooknFeel of administering my
> box with Mandrake. Someday I'll fire up a BSD, but
> Mandrake is sufficient.
>
>
> --- Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:51:36PM -0700, Tom
> > Schutter wrote:
> > > As much as I like Mandrake, it is not the right
> > tool for your job.
> > > Use OpenBSD. Installing it without X is trivial,
> > and its security
> > > is much better than Linux.
> > >
> > > http://www.openbsd.org
> > >
> >
> > Agreed. For the ultimate in security, OpenBSD is
> > king. Perhaps I
> > rephrase the question: For a box w/o X on it, be it
> > a server, a
> > compute server, a log server, firewall, Beowulf
> > node, whatever, what
> > benefit does Mandrake have once you take away all
> > the pretty gui tools?
> >
> > *Note* To those who are lighting off their
> > flamethrowers because I
> > question Mandrake like this, keep in mind: It's just
> > that: questioning.
> > I'm not trying to trash Mandrake, or any other
> > distro. I'm just
> > trying to ascertain pluses and minuses for a given
> > scenario.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Monte
> >
> >
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