Non-biased vendor says Linux security is a myth.

[n0cmonkey]

Here.

He has a point about "single sign on" solutions. The parts are there, but the solution is missing. Of course, this might have to come from outside the US if the whole world wants to join in (crypto export laws and all).

 

[MisterESauce]

haha! non-biased, that's good! 😀

 

[kamper]

I'm not sure I followed his jump from "taking responsibility for patching security holes" to "more secure software". Most of his points seemed not too ridiculous though, from a very specific perspective.

 

[Nothinman]

There is no such thing as a non-biased vendor.

And there are single-sign-on tools available, I just read an article on Kerberos recently and it looked easy enough that I believe I'll be setting it up at home soon. And now with Novell in the Linux game they'll probably release something too.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
There is no such thing as a non-biased vendor.

That was a joke. 😉

And there are single-sign-on tools available, I just read an article on Kerberos recently and it looked easy enough that I believe I'll be setting it up at home soon. And now with Novell in the Linux game they'll probably release something too.

There have been a number of kerberos articles floating around lately. At least one of the Linux mags had something and sys admin has a kerberos/ldap article. I think it has ldap though...

I said there are tools, but no one has brought them together, with defaults, and easy setup, etc. so that they work together out of the box across the board. Someone should make a package that works with Debian, fedora, Mandrake, FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc. out of the box that can accomplish all of that stuff. Kerberos and ldap are definitely the ways to go, but no one has tried to do it yet.