On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 10:10 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Always Learning centos@u64.u22.net wrote:
Or unless you have some sort of proof that a current Windows 2012 server is less secure or stable than a Linux distro.
Not every 'home' or business user uses, or can afford to purchase, Windoze 2012 Server. Besides that is far too large for end-users. Conversely everyone can use and afford (because it is free) to install Linux as a server, as a end-user (non-server) or as a mixture of the two. The Linux flexibility is one of its many strong points.
Let's start with why your /etc/shadow has read access. That's one of the things that was right out of the box. What changed it and why?
Yes that is what I would like to know. Can't tell. That disk was wiped, partitioned differently and reformatted. But it remains a puzzle I am unlikely to forget for a long time. I carried-out a check on every machine and was happy to see ---------- .