RedHat as a server

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>: 
 
> > > You shouldn't use RH9 as a server.   
 
To which I replied: 
 
> > According to whom?  ... and why?  
 
Quoting Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>: 
 
> According to me. ;) 
> I had trouble with my first "server" running RH. That was maybe 
> 5.something or 6.whatever. 
 
Ok, but you said not to run RH9, not 5 or 6. 
 
> It was bloated and a default setup left everything wide open and 
> running.   
 
This was different from which distribution in what way (at that time)? 
 
> Of course, I've learned much since then so part of it was probably 
> my own greenness. ;) 
 
I don't think you should blame yourself, most *NIX installations at the time 
installed and enabled all possible servers and didn't secure them.  Around 
RH6.2 they started to be a lot better, and the 7x series was reasonably secure 
out-of-the-box - so secure in fact that it was sometimes hard to figure out 
where something was locked down and get it to work! 
 
Still, I'm glad I started back in the 5x era, and had to use the Trinity docs 
as a guide to securing my servers.  I'm WAY ahead of these guys who have only 
ever seen a GUI configuration utility and who were able to run the system 
"out-of-the-box" without knowing any more about what's happening than a 
Microsoft user. 

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