[KLUG Members] Security setup ...

[Michael Lueck]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:47:33 -0400, Bruce Smith wrote:

> what is
>your current distro of choice?

"Dealing" with Debian (Sarge) for right now, but as our Electronic Software
Distribution tools continue to develop, we will probably simply download source
for everything we need and cook our own. Various politics / slop around the
Debian community are getting a bit annoying. Yet for the most part there does
not exist the tone of things not working between releases of Debian as compared
to Adam mentioning that, I believe it was LDAP, does not mesh well between SuSE
releases. If Debian started that kind of slop then we would be OUTTATHERE!

I believe GenToo is the source based one that also caught our interest, just
not on any boxes at this time.

>and my
>desktops are behind a firewall anyway

In a small controlled environment, that might be adequate security. In the
"real world" where people hand install things on their non locked down
computers, or people bring laptops in and out, it is not safe to consider
perimeter security sufficient.

Michael