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Re: [linux-security] Re: You wouldn't believe it...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Fri Jul 12 11:38:56 1996
From: Chris Adams <cadams@sh1.ro.com>
To: jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net (Jon Lewis)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 23:19:58 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: slewis@CompLaw.com, SERVER-LINUX@NETSPACE.ORG,
linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960710020053.15516J-100000@inorganic5.chem.ufl.edu> from "Jon Lewis" at Jul 10, 96 02:12:11 am
Reply-To: C.Adams@Yellow-Jackets.com
Once upon a time, Jon Lewis wrote
> This is something I meant to say something about...but kept forgetting.
> There's this box I installed very nearly all of Red Hat 3.0.3 on to get a
> feel for Red Hat and see just how much I'd hate it. Maybe I just haven't
> gotten to know it well enough...but I greatly prefer my hacked up
> slackware based boxes. Anyway, one day a co-worker brings in his
> notebook with pcmcia ethernet, and asks me whats up with this Windows
> server on our network. "What windows server?" It was then that I found
> that by default, Red Hat 3.0.3 setup Samba for me and ran it with /tmp
> world rw. I still don't know Samba, but I assume this is the section of
I think that by default, RedHat assumes that you want to run everything
you install. Install INN, it will be run at boot time. Install Samba,
it will be run at boot time, etc. All you have to do is either delete
links from /etc/rc.d/rc[0-6].d or run the program under X that lets you
use a GUI to do the same thing. :-)
Once I figured that out, I have gotten to like RedHat (of course, I
don't have to worry much about security under RedHat until next week).
--
Chris Adams (C.Adams@Yellow-Jackets.com)
"So, if anybody wants to have hardware sent to them: don't call me, but
instead write your own unix operating system. It has worked every time
for me." - Linus Torvalds, author of Linux (Unix-like) OS
