[newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I thought this would have been a required package to be installed by default but its not installed. I have been browsing through my RH security book Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization by Mohammed Kabir. I was actually going through the RH8 security section on NFS and it pointed to securing

Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:20, Robert Wideman wrote: I thought this would have been a required package to be installed by default but its not installed. I have been browsing through my RH security book Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization by Mohammed Kabir. I was actually going through the

RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs... True. But there are still some security measures that you would want

RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 20:32, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs... True. But

Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:32 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs...

Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:32 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs...

RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
Win2k/XP/etc has IIS installed on them to be serversdo you consider this a good thing? or a secure thing? M$ knows nothing about security. I dont even think its in their dictionary. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 02:53, et wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:32 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security

RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 07:12, Robert Wideman wrote: Win2k/XP/etc has IIS installed on them to be serversdo you consider this a good thing? or a secure thing? M$ knows nothing about security. I dont even think its in their dictionary. Rob When NT was first in beta it was very closely