* Michael Ströder wrote on Sun, May 05, 2002 at 14:14 +0200:
Alexander Thoma wrote:
Am Son, 2002-05-05 um 13.35 schrieb Michael Ströder: so my advice: administrate your system by hand and let all those susetools untouched.
The problem is that SuSE 8.0 makes it very hard to configure manually. That's a bad tendency - especially reagrding security.
Yes, it is. It's getting more difficult to configure a suse server secure, since a lot of automatic things work somewhere in the background and may make surprising decisions... I think SuSE is going to desktop and away from server. I understand that SuSE makes more money with this way, since GNU/Linux can be taken like a windows replacement. It's getting more and more similar to windows I think, which affects the good but also bad things. From security point of view I don't like that. When I set up a server for i.e. DNS, I have to do a lot of things. Well, maybe harden_suse assists with it, but a typical SuSE install is less an server but more a desktop system. I don't know if it's documented somewhere, but I think it is not easy to find out which automatic setup routine changes what in which distribution. With the higher complexity the transparency get lost a little I think. oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.