Re: Questions on secure remote access to Fedora Core 2

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:14:42 -0700, Keith Keller wrote:

Seems unlikely, but if this machine is supposed to be a server-class
machine, you might consider using something more along the lines of
CentOS.

Hmmm ... CentOS ... that's another new one on me.

Anyway, though, for all practical purposes we're stuck with FC2 ...
changing to anything else (CentOS or FC5/6 or ??) would be an unreasonably
large issue to resolve, as I said I'd rather not fight that fight unless
it's really of clear benefit security-wise.

We've been running a high-traffic web site on that FC2 machine for a
couple of years and it has been rock-solid (that's why I need to allow
open HTTP access on this machine and restrict access to everything else).
There are also some local users that do various things on that machine
that depend on FC2, and that's why it would be such a fight to change.

Yeah, I know ... we should use separate servers for the secure remote
access stuff and the open HTTP / local use stuff. Unfortunately it ain't
gonna happen, so we play the cards we are dealt.


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