On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:12:29 -0500 Steve Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi! I am frustrated with the linux 2.2 kernel. I have had two > hacks in 3 months and I am going broke rebuilding my server. The odds are good that your being cracked had nothing to do with the kernel version you were running. > I went out and bought Redhat 7, and got hacked 6 weeks later. Hardly surprising. > So Debian is about twice as good as redhat, but that is not real > reassuring. You need to find out: a) How your systems were cracked. b) How you could have prevented that. c) How to harden a system. d) How to audit and monitor a system. e) How to actively maintain a secure system. Choice of Linux distribution or kernel version really isn't going to help you much there (minor exceptions).. -- J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
