The truth is is that it is really ludicrous that you need to essentially have your box in a sealed environment disbling everything such that its almost unuseable. SuSE is a nice toy--great for tinkering with at home--and fairly cheap. But get a different distribution if you want something which takes security a little more seriously--like maybe RedHat or FreeBSD. I do like SuSE but, dispite the jabber to the contrary, I think the idea of allowing (essentially) anyone to be root is patently absurd. Just my 2 cents. Lee
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:31:33AM -0400, Lee Mavrogenis wrote:
The truth is is that it is really ludicrous that you need to essentially have your box in a sealed environment disbling everything such that its almost unuseable. SuSE is a nice toy--great for tinkering with at home--and fairly cheap. But get a different distribution if you want something which takes security a little more seriously--like maybe RedHat or FreeBSD.
I do like SuSE but, dispite the jabber to the contrary, I think the idea of allowing (essentially) anyone to be root is patently absurd.
In what way is SuSE different from any other distribution in this respect? -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net
On Saturday 13 July 2002 16.31, Lee Mavrogenis wrote:
The truth is is that it is really ludicrous that you need to essentially have your box in a sealed environment disbling everything such that its almost unuseable. SuSE is a nice toy--great for tinkering with at home--and fairly cheap. But get a different distribution if you want something which takes security a little more seriously--like maybe RedHat or FreeBSD.
I do like SuSE but, dispite the jabber to the contrary, I think the idea of allowing (essentially) anyone to be root is patently absurd.
Just my 2 cents.
Lee
And a good morning to you too, mr. Troll Every distribution of every OS known to mankind has no security whatever if you have physical access to the hardware. The exception is if the filesystem is encrypted, and you can do this in SuSE with ease. //Anders
Op zaterdag 13 juli 2002 16:31, schreef Lee Mavrogenis:
The truth is is that it is really ludicrous that you need to essentially have your box in a sealed environment disbling everything such that its almost unuseable. SuSE is a nice toy--great for tinkering with at home--and fairly cheap. But get a different distribution if you want something which takes security a little more seriously--like maybe RedHat or FreeBSD.
I do like SuSE but, dispite the jabber to the contrary, I think the idea of allowing (essentially) anyone to be root is patently absurd.
Just my 2 cents.
Lee
Are we going to react to this? I hope not!
Op zaterdag 13 juli 2002 16:31, schreef Lee Mavrogenis:
The truth is is that it is really ludicrous that you need to essentially have your box in a sealed environment disbling everything such that its almost unuseable. SuSE is a nice toy--great for tinkering with at home--and fairly cheap. But get a different distribution if you want something which takes security a little more seriously--like maybe RedHat or FreeBSD.
I do like SuSE but, dispite the jabber to the contrary, I think the idea of allowing (essentially) anyone to be root is patently absurd.
Just my 2 cents.
Lee
Are we going to react to this? I hope not! I discovered another serious security hole: it is possible to switch off
On Saturday 13 July 2002 15:45, Marcel Broekman wrote: the PC as the user, even though the root has disabled this option. I noticed this strange behavior during a power outage, the PC stopped working completely, without using my root login! -- Frits J. Wüthrich (Sent with Kmail)
Could you please tell us in what way Red-Hat and FreeBSD are more serious abot security? /Nils-Olov On Saturday 13 July 2002 16.31, Lee Mavrogenis wrote:
The truth is is that it is really ludicrous that you need to essentially have your box in a sealed environment disbling everything such that its almost unuseable. SuSE is a nice toy--great for tinkering with at home--and fairly cheap. But get a different distribution if you want something which takes security a little more seriously--like maybe RedHat or FreeBSD.
I do like SuSE but, dispite the jabber to the contrary, I think the idea of allowing (essentially) anyone to be root is patently absurd.
Just my 2 cents.
Lee
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