[geeks] are *BSD (and Linux) people "unhelpful"?

[Brian Hechinger]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:23:25AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Amy wrote:
> 
> > irix over solaris? wow. talk about your insecure recommendatons ;)
> 
> IRIX (for values of 6.5 and later) can be hammered into being quite
> secure, provided that you turn off the metric buttload of crap that's
> auto-installed and set to run.  It's just that...well, fixsolaris.txt is,
> what, about 50k?  fixirix.txt would be about 120k. :)

so, is there a fixirix.txt somewhere?  i can apply my general UNIX sercurity
knowledge to tightening down IRIX, but since i've never used it before i don't
know all the specifics.

and how do i get to use passwords longer than 8 chars?

-brian
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