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Subject: Re: Solaris2.5 and BSD* - Facts
From: Michael Dillon <michael @ memra . com>
Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 17:44:53 -0700 (PDT)
To: Firewalls Mailing List <Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: <Pine . SUN . 3 . 91 . 960411142835 . 3575A-100000 @ di2>

On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Scott Barman wrote:

> BSD does not have NIS integrated in every nook and cranny of the OS -
> Solaris does.  And now under 2.5, this may be more of a problem! Let
> me explain:

> Back to the original question:
> This seems to be a case of Sun promoting Security by Obscurity!  Is this
> who you want to trust your security systems to??

Note that you can run NetBSD or OpenBSD on your SUN machines instead of 
Solaris. Have a look at http://www.netbsd.org and http://www.openbsd.org

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