Re: Locking Down a Linux Box

From: ellipse (elliptic@cipherpunks.com)
Date: 01/07/02 

Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:21:40 -0700 (MST)
From: ellipse <elliptic@cipherpunks.com>
To: "Derek D. Martin" <ddm@mclinux.com>

> Yeah, that's definitely true. Plus, if the Linux box in question uses
> any of the major distributions with a package manager, it's trivial to

And what happens when the administrator removes the package manager?

ellipse

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