On Thu, 07 May 2009 10:50:55 +1200, Philip Dowie wrote:
But the quoted section above does document the discussion - I said "All executables" and you said "they are". I didn't qualify my statement as "all executables installed using RPM technologies", I said "all executables". :-)
what is an executable? Something with the X bit set? Shell scripts aren't executed, they are interpreted, yet they have the X bit set.. Likewise, I can take a binary, which is executable, and remove the X bit from it, but it is still executable, according to some definition..
For purposes of my discussion points, 'executable' means 'contains code that is executed' or 'contains executable code'. [...bunch of good points...]
I don't know what the silver bullet will be - clearly neither approach works right - windows works and is easy, but is as insecure as, well, windows, on the other hand, Linux can be really secure, but ends up being hard to use for the folk who don't want to know what a kernel is, etc, etc..
Very well written summary, Philip. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org