Secure Linux install?

[JD Runyan]

On Tue, Oct ,  at 12:12:04PM -0800, Steven Brendtro wrote:
> I have several Trustix Secure Linux boxes set up and
> they seem pretty solid.  I was turned onto them when I
> read they set up a $100,000 challenge and gave 4 days
> for people to hack into it.  A box withstood around
> 400,000 logged hacking attempts and noone ever got in.
> 
> http://www.trustix.net
> 
> Of course, the most important thing is to keep up on
> all the latest security updates, especially with
> sendmail/postfix/qmail and bind/named, since they seem
> to be the most "hackable".
> 
> Steve Brendtro
Actually I would say that they are the most used, and thus hackers pay
attention to them.  If you custom wrote your own servers applications, then there
would be few who bothered to ever try and hack you.

In response to the original post, I have found mandrake to do quite well
in the area of security.
> 
> 
> --- Bradley Miller <bradmiller at dslonramp.com> wrote:
> > Ok -- this crap is getting old.  Again our mail
> > server at the lake has been
> > nailed by a freakin' hacker.  I wish to hell someone
> > would put some teeth
> > into some laws to thwarte and track this kind of
> > thing.   What would be the
> > best system to install to keep out of these messes? 
> >   
> > 
> > -- Bradley Miller
> > 
> > 
> > majordomo at kclug.org
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> > 
> > 
> 
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