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RE: [cobalt-security] Redhat upgrade???
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-security] Redhat upgrade???
- From: "Simon Wilson" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:03:44 +0100
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-security-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-security-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kevin D
Sent: 13 August 2001 15:12
To: cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] Redhat upgrade???
From: "Simon Wilson" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> We are just about to upgrade our servers from Redhat Linux 6.1 to the
latest
>> version of Redhat 7.1.
>Are these cobalts??? If so, prepare to break the GUI big time!
Yes these are cobalt RAQ4s. Do you mean by GUI the web pages we use to admin
the RAQ4s?
I would be stuffed if I can't use them...
>> My question is are there any security implications in doing this?
>> Any warnings? don't do it like this, do it like that...
>Be sure to do as bare an installation as possible. Then go back and start
>disabling and removing everything that you don't need. Do repeated
portscans
>on the server to check for running services that you don't want.
Does this mean it will restart all the services I have disabled eg: telnet?
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