Re: [cobalt-users] Attackalert

["Marc Gear" <marcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Gotta agree with Dan here... the box is sold as being idiot-proof. And I
> do, in fact now have an idiot successfully running one so the marketing is
> true AFAIAC. However, idiots should only run these things when backed up
by
> a decent sysadmin to do security, et al. which *cannot* properly be done
> without the CLI.

Oh I agree too, that is precicley how cobalt market them, and they can be
used by idiots, but there is only so much that the gui can do.  If you want
php and mysql or protection from portscans or even want to check that your
version of bind is the latest one and not open to the latest exploit you
really need the command line.

I think its a pretty much essential part of using a cobalt if you want to do
anything that is not in the manual or on the website, infact a lot of the
knowledge base will require that you use the command line too.  Most of the
querys in this users list and all of the ones on the security list are going
to require shell access to fix or do what is wanted.

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