On Monday 7. January 2002 16:21, ellipse wrote: > > Yeah, that's definitely true. Plus, if the Linux box in question uses > > any of the major distributions with a package manager, it's trivial to > > And what happens when the administrator removes the package manager?
Then he removes the possibility of doing easy security updates of the system, so the chances of updates beeing neglected or not installed on time is greater. Besides getting hold of the files and putting them back is trivial to any attacker. It might be more work but that's just a challenge. -- Harald Skoglund
