[Beowulf] Security issues

Jon Aquilina eagles051387 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 25 02:31:28 PDT 2008


even if you are using a default kernel how often do u hear of a kernel
default or not getting hacked?

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Leif Nixon <nixon at nsc.liu.se> wrote:

> "B. Vincent Diepeveen" <diep at xs4all.nl> writes:
>
> > Now you post here a big story on how your Rocks got hacked. Do i
> > conclude it correctly the
> > problem is that you ran a default Rocks kernel?
>
> The basic problem seems to be bad account hygiene.
>
> That's a hard problem. Users will forever be borrowing each other's
> accounts, making it difficult to contain security breaches.
>
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