APT, Yum and Red Carpet

[Stephan Schutter]

These admins referenced in the text would never know how to -- or why to 
use SE Linux. The sugestion that, most administrators out there are very 
lightly skilled, is true. This has held true for all of my years as a 
small business consultant. The more GUI tools that RedHat can provide the 
better for them and their clients.  


./SLS

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> > In a real corporate environment, Secretaries don't have the access 
> > required to install software.  Giving a secretary root on a box is just 
> 
> I wish 8)
> 
> > insane.  Corporate images are developed, deployed and only updated when 
> > there is a true business need.  Allowing users to install software 
> > willy nilly just causes huge headaches, leads to virus infection and 
> > system instability.  While there is some argument for having a nice gui 
> > frontend to installing software, it doesn't quite click in the real 
> > corporate environment.
> 
> Over 90% of companies are *small business*. Most of them either use 
> consultants or have relatively lightly trained staff for whom making the
> computers work is often just part of their job and in many cases not part
> of any official job description at all.
> 
> Its also not just a case of "root" either, on a really locked down system
> with something like SELinux or RSBAC installed you not only don't give
> people root you make it impossible for anything to create executables or
> any scripts for shells to be run unless they have been "blessed" by some
> sysadmin controlled tool. That turns "I got this cool screensaver.." into
> "I got this cool screensaver but it wont run" which allows the sysadmin to
> explain to the staff member why not and why that wont be changing.




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