RE: Looking for security resources for SCO open server

[Chris Santerre <csanterre () MerchantsOverseas com>]

While I agree SCO sux. Try www.pcunix.com for security stuff on it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Westergren [mailto:Lars.Westergren () tpb se]
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 2:47 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Looking for security resources for SCO open server
>
>
> Resending mail, original probably lost due to Security Basics mail
> outage:
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> Hello,
>
> I'm sorry to be rude, especially since Security Basics is supposed to
> be about asking for help in a friendly environment, but this 
> is the only
> case where I wouldn't help you even if I could. It is nothing 
> personal,
> but due to the recent actions of SCO I really loathe the company and I
> will do nothing to help them, or even inderectly by helping 
> their users.
>
>
> I presume it might not be up to you to decide which OS your company is
> running, but if you have any influence over the decision makers, you
> might want to point out that SCO has managed to make millions of Linux
> users furious and has attacked giants such as IBM.
>
> From what I have heard, SCO Unix is not very competent, and boss Carl
> McBride has a history of suing people right and left:
> http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2020889
>
> Even if SCO is unaffected as a company (and I think it will be
> affected) they have managed to gather en enormous amount of bad will
> from the tech community. I for one will be happy when the company is
> dead, the sooner the better.
>
> Sincerely,
> Lars Westergren
>
>
> > > > "Ramneek Puri" <ramneek.puri () mail mynetsec com> 2003-08-27 07:10
> Hi Everybody,
>    
> I am looking for resources(web links) to prepare security guidelines
> for SCO 
> open server... google search was not of much help...
>
>
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