[Gllug] Security

[Richard Cohen]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Tom Gilbert wrote:

> * Tushar Joshi (tjoshi at lonix.org.uk) wrote:
> >
> > Was interesting for me at leat, noticing that slackware has the least
> > vunerabilities in it out of the Linux distros. Which proves that when an
> > installer installs, services shouldn't be setup as default which the
> > main distros still seem to do. Amazing to watch the screen of a redhat
> > machine boot and watch what it it runs out of the box!
>
> Their numbers count everything installed by default, but they don't
> count whether it's enabled or not. So having rshd installed means you
> are vulnerable to an rshd exploit, whether a default install runs it for
> you or not.
>
> The actual difference you're seeing there is simply that slackware has
> less than half the number of packages than any modern distro.

And is all the better for it...

> Tom.

Cheers
Richard


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