On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:06:35 +0930 "Tim via users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Bill Oliver <ven...@billoblog.com> wrote: > > > I grew up on Red Hat/Fedora years ago, but moved to Ubuntu because > > > some software I used was available in binary form only in that > > > distro. Recently, I've moved back to Fedora. One thing i took > > > advantage of when I was using Ubuntu was the free level one Ubuntu > > > Pro program that provided some useful security scripts and such. > > > Is there an equivalent or near-equivalent to Ubuntu Pro at the free > > > personal level for Fedora? Are there any standardized security > > > checklists, etc. available? > > Jonathan Billings: > > Perhaps you’re interested in something like OpenSCAP security > > profiles, which Fedora suppets: > > > > https://static.open-scap.org/ssg-guides/ssg-fedora-guide-standard.html > > > I wonder if anyone vets that information? > > For instance, I scrolled through that and came across the section about > users should be forced to periodically change their password. That's > always been dumb advice, even if only recently its starting to get > realised. ... > I just looked for the obvious stupid one, there's probably other bad > things in there. There's always been stupid advice, and people > blithely go along with it. Not only that. Different applications have different rules for passwords: number of characters, special symbols, numbers, ... Basically, confusion. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
