[Fedora] Seeing input on Securing the Linux system from intrusions and attacks.

[John Summerfield]

Tim wrote:
> Craig White:
>> Actually, anyone who has set up Windows 2003 Server in the last year has
>> noticed that this shouldn't happen anymore because the firewall is
>> automatic during initial setup phase and user is clearly aware that
>> during initial setup phase, this firewall remains until updates are all
>> installed or the user opts out.
> 
> That's hardly an OS for a user.  In this case, it would have been 2000
> or XP, most likely.
> 
>> Let's give Microsoft a little credit (not much, but a little).
> 
> Only as being a successful software *pusher*, not for being a good
> software creator.
> 
> My laptop came with Vista, there was virtually no avoiding it.  Not
> unless I wanted to mail order in some computer that I'd never been able
> to physically inspect in a shop before purchase.  And that's not
> something I'll do with a purchase of that price.
> 
> I can see they've smartened up a bit, but only a bit.  Yes, at long
> last, you don't have to login as the admin to do some admin tasks.  Just

That's true on XP Professional (I don't use unprofessional, can't say 
about that) and on Server 2003...

> give an admin password at the right moment, just like when we try to use
> one of the various system-config- whatever GUIs.  But it doesn't give
> you an option to keep that authentication for the next one, you're
> forever typing in the password.  Eventually users are going to turn off
> the security, in one way or another.

as we did on out Windows 2003 Server course a while back. I really can't 
imagine anyone typing p at ssw0rd a few hundred times in the course of the 
course.

Server allows two concurrent logins; presumably one can login as a mere 
mortal and use RDP to connect as an administrator; I simply connect as 
an administrator from my Linux box.




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John

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