On Monday 03 October 2005 05:10, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 15:54 +0100, Maccy wrote:
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Sorry, what is "LSB" please??
I had to work it out, too.
Doesn't that standardization open up some security issues in the event a script kiddy finds a way into a particular distro.
You can't make Linux, or any OS, secure by scattering faulty and vulnerable programmes around the directory structure in an effort to confuse crackers - "If this is Yellow Dog, it must be /sbin" isn't going to save any of us. The vulnerabilities have to be fixed, and the system assembled in such a way that one small crack doesn't easily become a gaping hole. All that avoiding standard locations does is make it a pain to work on an unfamiliar distro. Best Fergus
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