On Tue, April 11, 2017 1:23 pm, Pete Biggs wrote:
Years uptime, wow! What do you do when security update for kernel or glibc is released? These come as often as once every 45 days in my observation.
They're non-exposed hosts doing very specific things - think internal network with an air-gap to the internet.
Ah, that explains. Doesn't suite me though: I do run machines in an assumption that bad guy is already inside. Saved me twice: I watched attempts of elevation of privileges (unsuccessful) before I locked regular user account that was compromised. So this doesn't suit me, alas, even for backend servers. I guess I had too "strict" teachers ;-)
Thanks for clarifying!
Valeri
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