On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:14:34 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >Yes. They've completely redone things, in a manner that makes life >harder than it need to be. Everything is Unix based, and their >deployment manager is web[1] based. If you want to order electronic >delivery, involve your network folks early on so that they can deploy >any needed proxies or servers. > Proxies and stuff are often mandated for "security" reasons. Often this is attacking the perceived problem in the wrong place: erecting a firewall because the weaknesses in Windows aren't repaired and can't be avoided except by embargo.
>[1] I've suggested making it available via FTP; it might be worth > checking whether they have done so. > Nowadays the venerable FTP may be so far under the radar as not to be considered in the security design. Often HTTP clients launch .exe files automatically; FTP clients don't. (Unless the FTP client is a web browser.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
