[Cialug] Account requiem, or longest-held accounts.

[bofh at visi.com]

"Uptime" depends upon the system's location in the 
security onion.  The closer to the outer edge of the 
layers, the more important it is to keep an eye on 
security patches and your specific risk assessment.  There 
are systems where availability is more important, and so 
well-designed and managed MLS layers work to mitigate the 
security risks to those systems, moving them to the center 
of the onion. 

As for the university shells, true.  But not all of us are 
associated with a university/college for 15+ years. :)


On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:17:44 -0600
  Claus <cniesen at gmx.net> wrote:
> L. V. Lammert wrote:
>> .. what about oldest *Linux* installations? 
> 
> I'm lurking on another mailing list and if anybody brings up subjects  such as uptime then they are ridiculed for not > updating and keeping  their system secure.
> 
> BTW, having a shell account for 15 years is no biggy. 
> For example if  you are affiliated with a University since one often 
>gets a shell  account by default even if they don't have the slightest 
>clue about *nix.
>