On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Always Learning <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Foolish and stupid implicit trust in a third party. Just look at the
> Windoze world ever since Win95 (first edition of many) materialised.
> Trust M$ and get a free virus every time !
I wouldn't go there unless you want to compare against, say Red Hat 4
(original, not RHEL) of the same era where virtually every service had
remote exploits - and we are still finding them. Or unless you have
some sort of proof that a current Windows 2012 server is less secure
or stable than a Linux distro.
> In addition to my Centos Leaning mailing list suggestion, I would like
> to see a free web based Centos security questionnaire to ask users
> security related questions and then present a rating based upon their
> correct answers. Red Hat people and Fedora people too lurk on here, yet
> there is a reluctance (probably commercially inspired) not to fully
> respond to the challenges threatening all of us 'today'.
Let's start with why your /etc/shadow has read access. That's one of
the things that was right out of the box. What changed it and why?
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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