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Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility
From: Devdas Bhagat <devdas () dvb homelinux org>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 22:25:52 +0530
On 08/05/04 11:23 -0400, Mark Gumennik wrote: <replies only to the list please>
LINUX on a desktop? - I am going back to desktop administration right away. Hooray! - we will get paid more money than security gurus! And instead of getting 5 people per 1000 users (whatever the standard is
IIRC, it was about 50 Windows systems per administrator, and 100 for a Unix administrator at one time. With a Linux/Unix desktop running X and remote applications, the real requirements come down from 100 desktops to ten beefier boxes. Much easier to manage and control. BTW, FreeBSD works quite well too. So it might get much cheaper for a company to hire fewer clued administrators.
right now) we will have to hire 25. Go employment for IS, I mean us ! AND how the heck do you propose to manage AAA? Any replacement for domain infrastructure? - the only one I know today that is better then
OpenLDAP? The only thing missing is a pretty frontend (the current ones aren't *that* pretty yet). ACLs? Linux has those. Kerberos, its there. (I know OpenLDAP is a PITA by itself, but that is a different beast).
MS is Novell NDS (and btw it's 10 years more mature, and btw it works on LINUX ) Shall we use NDS? - Go back to that monster? Was it better under their dictatorship?
If that is an option, why not? Use the best tools for the job (which in some cases may be Windows as well).
AND: where do you get the info about LINUX being more secure than the Big Bad ? Read any serious info , like from bagtrack, LINUX had more vulnerabilities for the past 3 years than any given MS OS
None of which really impacted the world. Or took down critical infrastructure, that being what sparked off this thread.
AND: I don't like the fact that LINUX security is mostly sponsored by German and some other governments, just don't like it. Do you seriously check all the code before installing the OS? Every distro?
Uh? I seriously like the fact that Linux security is sponsored by people outside the USA. I haven't, yet. But then, I read Bugtraq and FD and keep an eye out for alerts and patch my own systems. The fact that Windows security is done in the USA is far scarier to me outside the USA. Devdas Bhagat PS: I'm not saying that *Linux* should be on the desktop. It could be a BSD, or another OS as well. _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- RE: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility, (continued)
- RE: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Paul D. Robertson (May 05)
- RE: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Carson Gaspar (May 06)
- RE: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Paul D. Robertson (May 06)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Devdas Bhagat (May 06)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Jim Seymour (May 06)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Devdas Bhagat (May 07)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Paul D. Robertson (May 07)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Devdas Bhagat (May 07)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Paul D. Robertson (May 07)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Mark Gumennik (May 08)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Devdas Bhagat (May 08)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Erick Mechler (May 10)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Paul D. Robertson (May 10)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Erick Mechler (May 10)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Paul D. Robertson (May 10)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Devdas Bhagat (May 10)
- Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Paul D. Robertson (May 08)
- RE: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Mark Gumennik (May 11)
- RE: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility Paul D. Robertson (May 11)
- AIX LPAR security hermit921 (May 25)
- Re: AIX LPAR security Paul D. Robertson (May 25)