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

Thu Dec 4 17:29:23 UTC 2014
Cal Webster <cwebster at ec.rr.com>

On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 11:41 -0500, Jason Ricles wrote:
> 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.

I would recommend RHEL for critical systems or those that must be
certified for a particular purpose, such as CA servers. We've been using
CentOS for years now on our internal networks for software development,
local site mail service (SMTP/POP/IMAP), file services
(FTP/NFS/SMB/CIFS), DNS, local web servers, etc. It works very well for
this, especially for software development where multiple people can get
a GUI login through Stunnel->VNC->GDM and/or shell through ssh.

We're also using CentOS for software maintenance of RHEL hosts on our
aircraft simulators. Many of our software developers prefer a CentOS
workstation because of its versatility. On those we install MS Windoze
as a KVM guest for those applications that require it. My internal
workstation is setup this way for use network/systems admin and
analysis, software development, as well as normal office tasks.

> 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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