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RE: [cobalt-users] security packages installed?
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] security packages installed?
- From: "Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu May 13 07:39:01 2004
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> Greetings:
>
> I bought a RAQ4 from someone recently and was wondering how you
> tell what level of security packages that have been in installed
> or what needs to be installed?
>
> -Doug
Hi Doug,
I wouldn't even bother to try - format it, re-load it, fully patch it from
the big list and then decide what you want on there, in a lot of ways an
unknown machine is possibly worse than one that has been compromised!
Regards,
Phil
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