Re: [Security-Discuss] mdv 2006 lifetime

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:01:48AM -0400, Bob Puff wrote:
> 
> Yes, I'm doing just that for internet servers.  (And FWIW, CS 3.0 is missing a
> SNMP server on the disks - at least as far as URMPI is concerned.  Thankfully,
> its in the updates.)
> 
> However, I was referring to servers that I set up for small companies that
> never actually see the internet.  Small workgroups that share files, printers,
> etc.  I bring cd sets, install, configure, then it's done.  So far I've not
> had to do updates, because everything worked fine out of the box.  Security
> threats aren't, because of no direct access to the internet.  So now, we're
> missing a FTP server.  Will Samba-server be the next one axed?
> 

If they have access to the internet, why not configure main, contrib and
updates when you're there, run updates after installing, as well as doing
"urpmi proftpd". Then you can still use 2005LE or 2006.0 and have the
server, which is just not on the CD, but is on the mirrors.

If they don't, you could make an extra CD with the server packages and their
dependencies and bring that one along as well...

I figure it's better to think in terms of solutions than in terms of
problems ;-) (but now I'm sounding like a manager, so I must be getting ill
;-)

/Simon

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