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Re: Disabling Root Access



On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 09:00:39AM -0000, Dr. Evil wrote:

> > What about all those Linux and BSD machines with advertised uptimes of 3+
> > years?
> I agree.  I think that if you start out with proven hardware and a
> rock-solid OS like OpenBSD, there is no reason why it couldnt have an
> uptime of three years or more.  

well yes, but I'm sure in these three years there will be at least one sort of 
remote-exploit/DoS in one of the things you run on that box, meaning you need
access to the box to fix it (remember: we were talking about absolutly *no* access,
except for a web-frontend).

-fkr, I don't think this makes sense...
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