similar to: Another Fedora decision

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 18:34 -0800, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > >> OK, folks. You're doing a great job of describing the current milieu >> with a rough description of some best practices. >> >> Now how about some specific sources you personally used to learn your >> craft

On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 18:34 -0800, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > OK, folks. You're doing a great job of describing the current milieu > with a rough description of some best practices. > > Now how about some specific sources you personally used to learn your > craft that we can use likewise? Taught myself (as usual). Used Google to find helpful advice from countless other people.

OK, folks. You're doing a great job of describing the current milieu with a rough description of some best practices. Now how about some specific sources you personally used to learn your craft that we can use likewise? PatrickD

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Kahlil Hodgson <kahlil.hodgson at dealmax.com.au> wrote: > On 3 February 2015 at 13:34, PatrickD Garvey <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> wrote: >> Now how about some specific sources you personally used to learn your >> craft that we can use likewise? > > So many places it makes my brain hurt just thinking about it. Google > and

On 3 February 2015 at 13:34, PatrickD Garvey <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> wrote: > Now how about some specific sources you personally used to learn your > craft that we can use likewise? So many places it makes my brain hurt just thinking about it. Google and Wikipedia will keep you busy for a long while. Off the top of my head: There are some online "Security

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 11:21 -0800, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > >> I would love to review the improvements you may make to any page of the wiki. > > Post the URL of your page. > http://wiki.centos.org/PatrickDGarvey

On 10 February 2015 at 10:15, PatrickD Garvey <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> wrote: > Please allow me to make sure I am perceiving this correctly, > reports of errors found in RedHat documentation are to be reported > against the Fedora Documentation product type in the RedHat bugzilla? > and > reports of errors found in Fedora documentation are, also, to be > reported

On 02/09/2015 04:25 PM, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Kahlil Hodgson > <kahlil.hodgson at dealmax.com.au> wrote: >> On 10 February 2015 at 10:15, PatrickD Garvey <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Please allow me to make sure I am perceiving this correctly, >>> reports of errors found in RedHat documentation are to be

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 20:26 -0800, PatrickD Garvey wrote: >> >> The CentOS wiki pages found by a title page search are: >> http://wiki.centos.org/HelpOnConfiguration/SecurityPolicy >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Security >> http://wiki.centos.org/Security >>

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:05 PM, PatrickD Garvey <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Brian Stinson <bstinson at ksu.edu> wrote: > >> On Dec 23 17:05, PatrickD Garvey wrote: >> > Thank you for your contribution to the discussion. I'm glad you appear >> to >> > understand this was not directed at you

On Wed, February 4, 2015 17:55, Warren Young wrote: > > But of course the same people fighting this move to more secure > password minima are the same ones that turn off SELinux. > Ah. Sorry, NO. First, we are not talking about a more secure password minima. We are discussing an arbitrary change made to an installer program that adversely impacts usability and that only has a

On Tue, February 10, 2015 18:28, Always Learning wrote: > > 3. The Russian's web site is that of a devote cyclist. Most of the > films on his web site are of cycling or about cycling. Most of the > oldish PDF files are about Linux and in Russian. I do not consider > his site presents a malicious danger to me. Most phishing sites do not resemble anything like what one might

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: "PatrickD Garvey" <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> Aan: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Verzonden: Zaterdag 31 januari 2015 02:21:28 Onderwerp: Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > There is some complaining going on on the

On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 11:21 -0800, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > > *** NOTHING about Firewalls (IP Tables) *** > I agree, this is not good. > Come do as I have done. > I followed the instructions at > http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2cca54dd79e5 3. Contribute to the Wiki Create a login with a username in the format: FirstnameLastname. For

On 10 February 2015 at 09:53, PatrickD Garvey <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to know how a member of > the CentOS project submits improvements to something in the RedHat > documentation. Can you provide guidance in that regard? I think you can simply submit a bug report under fedora documentation. Note, the Fedora Systems Administration Guide seems to have

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Kahlil Hodgson <kahlil.hodgson at dealmax.com.au> wrote: > On 10 February 2015 at 10:15, PatrickD Garvey <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> wrote: >> Please allow me to make sure I am perceiving this correctly, >> reports of errors found in RedHat documentation are to be reported >> against the Fedora Documentation product type in the

On Wed, February 4, 2015 17:16, Lamar Owen wrote:. > > Now, I have seen this happen, on a system in the wild, where the very > first thing the attacker did was grab a copy of /etc/shadow, even with > an interactive reverse shell and root access being had. So even when > you recover your system from the compromise you have the risk of all > those passwords being known, and

I think it well to recall that the change which instigated this tempest was not to the network operations of a RHEL based system but to the 'INSTALLER' process, Anaconda. Now, I might be off base on this but really, ask yourself: Who exactly uses an installer program? And what is the threat model being addressed by requiring that the installer set a suitably strong password for root?

On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 20:26 -0800, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > > The CentOS wiki pages found by a title page search are: > http://wiki.centos.org/HelpOnConfiguration/SecurityPolicy > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Security > http://wiki.centos.org/Security > http://wiki.centos.org/Security/Heartbleed > http://wiki.centos.org/Security/POODLE >

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/15 05:58, PatrickD Garvey wrote: >> From: PatrickD Garvey <patrickdgarveyt at gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb >> 2, 2015 at 11:14 AM Subject: CentOS.org redirected links in >> wiki.c.o/Download To: "CentOS-docs - centos-docs at CentOS.org" >> <centos-docs at centos.org> >> >> >> The