[plug] Red Hat Linux 7 security,etc. problems?

[Peter Wright]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:38:15PM +0800, Gavin Corfield wrote:
> > (a) some of the more well-known problems with RH7, both security and
> > other, that hopefully I can use to persuade him it's just a bad option
> > and he should use something else,
> 
> the default rh7 workstation didn't install apache, ftp or telnet on my
> machine

Did it install bind?

> however, details on tightening up rh are available in linux gazette
> www.linuxgazette.org I think from last November or October

Thanks. I'll have a look.

Hmm, couldn't find it (there was an October article on configuring sendmail
for redhat 6.2 - maybe this was the one you remembered?)

[ snip other points ]

Thanks for these too.

> gavin

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