Michael Johnson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Rick Chandler wrote:
> > >You should have your machine secure if you are connected to the
> > >internet at all....not just because you are using IRC. There are
> > >other ways to discover your IP than having it discovered on IRC. IRC
> > >isn't the culprit...its poor administration.
> > I'll give you that. How many newbies do we have using Linux who don't
> > know about security at all? My statement is that if your going to use a
> > program that will easily give you someones IP address, then you'd better
> > secure your system. I didn't have mine secure because, I really don't
> > care, if it gets distroyed then I just simply re-install it. Others
> > system are most likely more valuable to them than me.
>
> With all due respect, someone who doesn't even bother having a password
> for the root
> account is certainly the LAST person who should be giving advice TO
> ANYONE on system adminstration and unix/linux security. There is no
> rational justification for it. There is nowhere
<snip>
>
> A billion other things, but you get the point. If you use Linux, Solaris,
> FreeBSD, it is not like using Windows. It's a different mentality. I don't
> mean to preach, but I feel like even though all this sounds insanely
> obvious, that it apparently needed saying.
First off, since I started this thread..., thanks to all that helped
with my original question. Now specifically to Michael, you have a
very valid point, it just seems that those coming into Linux from the
Windows world are totally unaware of most, if not all of the security
issues with Linux. Now, SuSE has a pretty good manual..., but it
doesn't really get into security issues to well. Remember all of
those manuals you got with SCO, ESIX, Xenix and Solaris? ;-)
I'm not aware of any site that has specific FAQ's on Linux security
issue's (as in how to bulletproof your system type) but it sounds
like a worth while project, although I would assume such info
already exists. Also to be fair to those migrating for the world
of Windows 9x, security is a nonexistent feature. (ok, they
have a login box that you hit cancel at.;) Being that they no
not what they do when running stuff as root, (I'd say 99% of
which is because root works, stuff as a user does not) and they
don't know how to fix permissions, or add the user to a specific
group. It's not a matter of being stupid, just unaware of the
what they are doing. (well, at least in *most* cases)
That's about it. ;)
Dana
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