From: Laurent Bercot <ska-supervision@skarnet.org>
Subject: Re: svlogd and umask settings
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:51:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060916095109.GA24837@skarnet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060915152226.GI18873@annvix.org>
> and I'm aiming to protect dumb admins from themselves.
I don't want to start a discussion here, or sound patronizing, but
might I suggest you're on a wild goose chase ? ;)
Unix wasn't made to protect dumb admins from themselves. It was made
to be used by people who know what they're doing. (And that's the
reason why there are so many Unix problems and misconfigurations.)
I have found so far that the most efficient way to write software that
aims to ensure proper working and security of a Unix system is to set
clear boundaries and document them: point A is the software's
responsibility, point B is *your* responsibility as the admin and you
should make sure it works before running the software.
Anyway. Enough ranting.
--
Laurent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-16 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-30 22:03 Vincent Danen
2006-09-01 17:49 ` Vincent Danen
2006-09-15 14:47 ` Gerrit Pape
2006-09-15 15:22 ` Vincent Danen
2006-09-16 9:51 ` Laurent Bercot [this message]
2006-09-16 17:20 ` Vincent Danen
2006-09-18 15:18 ` Christian Holtje
2006-09-18 16:06 ` Vincent Danen
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