on 5-19-2009 8:11 AM Anne Wilson spake the following: > I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- > widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, basically > - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure. > > It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to > keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install > security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications > perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. > > Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron > picks it up? > > I'd be glad of any advice. > > Anne Maybe you could arrange to do some remote access every 3 or 4 months or so and just update it for him. You could also show him how to do it during this time, and it might give him some confidence and a better sense of independence which he will probably very much appreciate.
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