security

RSBAC and AppArmor

I’ve taken the last week of June “off” from doing updates to look into RSBAC and AppArmor because I’m not convinced that the Mandriva implementation of RSBAC will be user-friendly or transparent, nor very “out-of-the-box”. This was the result of my asking why we are persisting with RSBAC (which can be complicated and very intrusive [...]

So why don’t I like the 2.6 kernel anyways?

I get a lot of people asking me why, when it comes to my own servers, Annvix, and my own personal recommendations to people who ask what kernel to use, I whole-heartedly do not recommend the 2.6 kernel and instead advocate the stability and greater security of the 2.4 kernel. Well, for kicks I downloaded [...]

Mounting remote systems via ssh

I write these little things called TechMails for TechRepublic every month and this month I was looking at Konqueror and it’s fish:// Kioslave stuff. I’ve never actually played with fish before, probably because I don’t really like KDE and never use it but this stuff is pretty neat. I have no idea if GNOME/Nautilus can [...]