On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> wrote: > > Foolish and stupid implicit trust in a third party. Just look at the > Windoze world ever since Win95 (first edition of many) materialised. > Trust M$ and get a free virus every time ! I wouldn't go there unless you want to compare against, say Red Hat 4 (original, not RHEL) of the same era where virtually every service had remote exploits - and we are still finding them. Or unless you have some sort of proof that a current Windows 2012 server is less secure or stable than a Linux distro. > In addition to my Centos Leaning mailing list suggestion, I would like > to see a free web based Centos security questionnaire to ask users > security related questions and then present a rating based upon their > correct answers. Red Hat people and Fedora people too lurk on here, yet > there is a reluctance (probably commercially inspired) not to fully > respond to the challenges threatening all of us 'today'. 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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com