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- From: trant@shire.corp.sgi.com (Ken Trant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: security concerns revisted
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.173044.10208@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 17:30:44 GMT
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- >As has been discussed here every time this has come up (and as Vernon
- >mentioned in this same thread), the best thing would be to have a script
- >that runs after install, similarly to the autoconfig and confmsg scripts,
- >that asks the user if they want to setup a secure system, and walks them
- >through it in a script. That may still happen for a future release.
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- Running COPS would give you a very good jump start to securing a system,
- it is in the public domain, and runs on SGI systems.
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- Ken Trant <trant@sgi.com> / I think that I shall never see
- Senior Systems Administrator / A billboard lovely as a tree
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