Frank wrote:
2007/7/3, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Now, I realise people say "fedora isnt for production environments" -
> which this isnt. But grub requring gtk2, and smartmontools requiring
> usermode? These are just silly dependency issues...
>
> I guess I'll probably have to file some bugs in bugzilla.
>
> Hi Dan, with the smallest hard drive you can buy 120 GB, why are
you trying to make F7 look like Red Hat 6? Load the smallest F7 with
no language or applications packages. Then goto /etc/rc.d/init.d and
tell it to not start X.
Each program that is installed on a productive server rises the risk
of a backdoor
or similar problems. This means: even when X is not running on a
server it might
contain a bug that allows a regular user to get root access. You do
not want that!
Therefore a service should only (!) contain the programs needed to
run and nothing
more.
Cheers,
Frank
Hi Frank, I hear you but I fail to see how a Xwindows set of files
not running could aid a hacker. As for the root password it should be
protected by the passwrd files.
When school starts again I will ask the students in Computer
Engineering what they think.
Karl
