[CentOS] prevent users from fiddling with network?

Leroy Tennison leroy at datavoiceint.com
Fri Sep 22 13:31:16 UTC 2017


As Scott said, nothing is perfect.  On Ubuntu (16.04 - the current long term support version) all home directories are world executable/readable ("Security?  What's that?").

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Robbins" <scottro11 at gmail.com>
To: "centos" <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:40:03 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] prevent users from fiddling with network?

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 07:00:12PM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> 
> On Thu, September 21, 2017 6:13 pm, Scott Robbins wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 05:23:23PM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> >>
> >
> > Well, this is my longstanding rant against RedHat and friends.  Take a
> > look
> > at what Fedora is doing before blithely throwing it into RedHat.
> >>
> > Most Fedora stuff is for single user laptops, and frankly, a lot of it
> > seems developed by people with no concept of system administration.

> Well, I guess we see Microsoft money invested into ("donated" to? ;-)
> RedHat at work. Yes, my servers are FreeBSD for long time already, but as
> we have to use Linux for wide variety of stuff, we may need to start
> looking which other distribution (better from sysadmin's prospective) to
> flee to. Scott, I'd be glad to hear your advise on that matter. (As CentOS
> public mirror maintainer I will keep maintaining that indefinitely as a
> token of gratitude to the project that gave us so much over long time).

Unfortunately, no advice.  I haven't used Debian as anything but a laptop
install for a long time, but their developers did, in the past, seem to
have better ideas of system administration. They have their own issues, of
course, nothing is perfect.


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