now i see why the sudo approach adopted by debian and the kubuntu line is a good way to go. this is providing me with real motivation to start the development of my own kubuntu derived cluster distro. thing is i would need someone to give lists of pkgs that is used in a cluster and also testers and programmers to help me out seeing as i dont have a cluster.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Kilian CAVALOTTI < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Aquilina wrote: > >> did this person use the ssh exploit that red hat found a few months ago? >> > > Apparently not. From what Joe wrote, "the entry point was via a shared user > account". This account has been compromised, either with brute-force ssh > login attempts, or was socially engineered, it's not clear. > > Nothing seems to indicate (as far as I can tell) that the entry point was > due to some weakness in one of the Rocks components. I second Mitch in > saying that this break-in isn't Rocks specific, but rather the result of > poor (lack of?) administration practices (especially from what I could read > here: http://scalability.org/?p=905, and assuming it's about the same > customer). > > On the other hand, it's true that Rocks' philosophy (which I'm not a big > proponent of) doesn't make updates easy, nor encourage keeping systems > up-to-date. It tends to focus on the Windowsian "reinstall the whole > machine" approach in case of problem. Which makes perfect sense in specific > contexts, where no dedicated administration resources are available, or > where compute time is critical and understanding the root cause of technical > problems not so important. > > But this can also lead to the kind of security problem Joe described, even > if here, I don't think one can blame any of the system's component being > outdated for this intrusion. > > Cheers, > -- > Kilian > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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