on 5-19-2009 8:11 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, basically
- but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure.
It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough.
Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron picks it up?
I'd be glad of any advice.
Anne
Maybe you could arrange to do some remote access every 3 or 4 months or so and just update it for him. You could also show him how to do it during this time, and it might give him some confidence and a better sense of independence which he will probably very much appreciate.