[Centos] Secure server install

[donavan at 4wx.net (donavan nelson)]

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Greg Knaddison wrote:
| On that subject, it's worth considering that many installations are
| not terribly "secure" right out of the box.  For example, SSH allows
| protocol version 1 and remote root logins by default on Centos.  Many
| admins consider this to be rather insecure - some have no problem with
| it in their environments.

This is merely a duplication of the configuration of RHEL out of the
box.  IMHO, security due diligence is not a function of the distro provider.

| Whatever services you do need, it would be worth auditing all of their
| config files.

Their or the config files?

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