Re: security concerns revisted

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From: Ken Trant
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 17:30

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>As has been discussed here every time this has come up (and as Vernon
>mentioned in this same thread), the best thing would be to have a script
>that runs after install, similarly to the autoconfig and confmsg scripts,
>that asks the user if they want to setup a secure system, and walks them
>through it in a script.  That may still happen for a future release.

 Running COPS would give you a very good jump start to securing a system,
it is in the public domain, and runs on SGI systems.

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