On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 17:26 +0000, haman...@t-online.de wrote: I've only used Red Hat flavours of Linux since RH 6.2 so I can't speak for other distros, but here's my experience.
> Where IPs looked like machines in a computer center, I occasionally > had a closer look and found newly created sites, machines perhaps not > intended to run a plain webserver at all, and sites inviting to log > into plesk / confixx / whatever > Up to the early Fedoras it was well known that a fresh install didn't have a default firewall configured, so only a fool would do an install and configure the network with an active LAN connection unless he was behind a perimeter firewall or a NAT router. > One admin admitted that they were hacked through login guest / pass > guest > That could not have happened with any RedHat distro I've used for two good reasons: (1) the installer does not create a guest login and (2) root does not have a default password. However, I have seen Unices and workalikes, such as Vos, that did set up a standard set of user accounts with shells and a default password that was used for all of them including root. Martin
