[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.2.4EL planning... how stable?

[Doug Simpson]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 17:33, Doug Simpson wrote:
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>>Along these lines. . .
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>>I updated 4 servers two weeks before school started and every one of
>>them got hacked right after that. . .I still don't have them all back
>>working again after re-installing them. they had been running rock
>>solid over a year and two of them longer than that with little to no
>>upgrades.  I figured newer would be better and more secure. . .
>>WRONG!  I will not make that mistake again!
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>>I DO NOT recommend automated updates at all
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>I wouldn't do automatic updates either, but I do update
>often and am not aware of any recent new Centos vulnerabilities.
>Do you have any idea what happened?
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I have no idea what happened other than that after the udatres, 4 
updated servers got hacked and rootkits were installed.  Different 
rootkits on each one with different consequences.

Doug

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