fc5: install everything?

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Tue May 9 06:18:41 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 00:20 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 23:54, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 
> > Sorry - but "installing everything" is just plain silly in most cases.
> [...]
> > Install what you are going to use.
> 
> Why install a multiuser OS if only one user will ever use
> it?  

OK - install what your users are going to use.
You certainly don't want everything under the sun with multiple login
users - multiple login users increases the chances of a compromised
local account, and a compromised local account with everything installed
increases the chances that something installed has an exploit that can
be taken advantage of by the system cracker.




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