On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 09:48:19AM -0500, Daniel Taylor wrote: > As security features go it is a pretty good one. I'd like to see perl > gone also. For a production firewall you want nothing that makes it any > easier for an intruder to install software on the computer than > necessary. Of course, this means that you have to do all of your binary > production on a compatible dev system, but that is as it should be. Until they just scp their staticly linked programs in. Not having a compiler on the system does nothing for security. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list