[972] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] Alternative to NIS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Sat Jul 27 10:36:29 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:07:41 -0400
From: "Joseph S. D. Yao" <jsdy@cais.cais.com>
To: benedikt@devnull.ruhr.de, jsdy@cais.cais.com
Cc: boyd@interdim.com, linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
> [ To the moderators: This is drifting from linux security to linux ]
> [ administration issues. Feel free to drop it from linux-security ]
> [ if you think it unfit. --ben ]
Well, it's hard to keep them separate. Good security depends first and
foremost on good security policy and social engineering, and second on
good system administration (which you might even consider part of the
former); good utilities come a little later down the line.
;-)
[REW: and a very important part of administration is the initial
configuration that a system comes with! It should be usable, but not
too open (examples: "+ +" in hosts.equiv, or
"ps -auxww in /etc/inetd.conf").]
Joe Yao jsdy@cais.com - Joseph S. D. Yao
