[TriLUG] Basic Security Question

Chris Hedemark chris at yonderway.com
Thu May 9 11:00:02 EDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 10:25, Lisa C. Boyd wrote:
> So - is this true for installations nowadays? And if so, ya'll will help me 
> Saturday close all those doors right? ;)

It depends.

Things are a lot better than they used to be, but could get better
still.

Even OpenBSD, which is arguably the most secure OS out of the box, needs
tweaking when it is done to fine tune the security.  There is a project
within the user community of that OS to further harden a freshly
installed box with a script, sort of like Bastille for Linux.
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