On 8 May, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/08/98
> at 03:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>>There is NO
>>WAY I could recommend someone install Red Hat 3.0.3 and then connect the
>>machine to the Internet! This does not mean that Red Hat 3.0.3 was buggy
>>- it's just that the security holes that no-one knew about (and hardware
>>bugs like the Pentium f00f problem) would leave that machine completely
>>vulnerable to today's hackers.
>
> I suspect you are thinking of the American way of connecting 'permanently'
> to the internet. over this side of the pond most people I know only
> connect for the minimum time, to download mail or whatever because it
> costs money everytime we make a phone call, even local ones. Surely there
> is little vulnerabiity to hackers for people like me (and not every one
> has upgraded to pentiums there are plenty of 486s still in use).
But there are heaps of other security problems in Red Hat 3.0.3 - such
as buffer overruns...and whilst security through obscurity works, it
WILL catch people out eventually, no matter how long (or short) your
connection is.
> I still think it should be possible to set up a Linux distribution that
> ask pertinent questions during the installation, are you on a network, do
> you have an ISP and so on. We are asked about SCSI disks, I think,
> already. Extend this idea, use something like xisp to set up an internet
> connection. I got interested in Linux because a version of Slakware was on
> a magazine cover CD. Because it was fairly simple to install I got hooked.
> A lot of it seemed much like CP/M or dos so it wasn't quite the culture
> shock for me that todays winlusers get when they try to run Linux.
Red Hat is definitely moving this way - our installation program is (we
believe) getting better and better. Setting up an Internet connection
is very easy for most people using the X Based netcfg tool...
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