lists wrote:
> Hey everyone... I have been going over the replies this morning, and I know there is a
> lot of opinion regarding what a sys admin should know and so on. The PRIMARY reason we
> are looking at these packages is not for our selves (the sys admins), but rather to
> offer an interface to hosted customers for some basic functions like adding mail users,
isnt this more of a reason why you would want to have a system in place
that, alteast, lets you update the machines with security fix's as soon
as they are available ? cPanel and Plesk both have major issues in this
regard. Are you sure you want to leave control of major functions upto
the users, on an unpatched machine - live on the internet ?
If its a question of managing email accounts, mysql db's etc you should
mostly be ok with pretty much any system that works with config's and
packages from the distro - that way you can use the update system
included in CentOS ( Most of your security concerns will be the code
that these users run on your machine, which - lets face it - no matter
how you admin the box, they are going to run anyway ).
To illustrate my point ; what is the latest version of CentOS4 and
CentOS3 supported by either cPanel or Plesk ? What is the present
situation with the CVE's from the last few months on machines that run
these systems.
Now would be a good time for someone with an @cpanel.com and @swsoft.com
email address to join the thread.
- KB
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