[CentOS] DoD approval of Centos Was RE: Firefox fails to authenticate .mil sites with New DoDCAC

Thu Dec 4 18:14:38 UTC 2014
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Ricles
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:42
> 
> Gotcha, I also work with DoD for Navy systems and was surprised by
> that. So you mean if we don't want to pay RHEL licensing fees, we can
> use Centos? Since we are paying about $100 per RHEL license.

But you will still need a (self?) support plan to be STIG compliant.

> 
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Jason Pyeron 
> <jpyeron at pdinc.us> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jason Ricles
> >> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:23
> >> To: CentOS mailing list
> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox fails to authenticate .mil
> >> sites with New DoDCAC
> >>
> >> I thought DoD used RHEL and not Centos, or did Centos did approved
> >> DADEMS recently?
> >
> > DADMS is a Navy system, but yes Centos is approved for use 
> by DISA. You would STIG it just like RHEL.
> >
> > -Jason
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