Re: sysadmin in training

From	Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.security
Subject	Re: sysadmin in training
Date	2023-05-12 19:20 +0200
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On 2023-05-12 09:53:15 -0700 (-0700), Jeffrey Chimene wrote:
[...]
> Agreed. Actually, ossec itself has a debian package, so no ITP for
> me :). It made my work significantly easier since the regex
> package (pcre2) isn't part of the distro; the absence has a
> reason, but it's still an impediment that ossec itself has
> addressed with their .deb

I'm not sure that official Debian documentation, particularly
security-focused documentation, should recommend that sysadmins
install packages from third party archives. That'll be up to the
maintainers of the documentation to decide, of course.

But beyond that...

> wget -q -O - https://updates.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sudo bash
[...]

There's a bit of irony in suggesting that security-conscious
sysadmins should download and run arbitrary scripts, much less with
root privileges. `curl|sudo bash` has virtually become a meme unto
itself these days.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley

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sysadmin in training Jeffrey Chimene <jeff@systasis.co> - 2023-05-12 17:40 +0200
  Re: sysadmin in training Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2023-05-12 18:20 +0200
    Re: sysadmin in training Jeffrey Chimene <jeff@systasis.co> - 2023-05-12 19:10 +0200
      Re: sysadmin in training Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2023-05-12 19:20 +0200
        Re: sysadmin in training Jeffrey Chimene <jeff@systasis.co> - 2023-05-12 21:40 +0200
          Re: sysadmin in training Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> - 2023-05-13 03:50 +0200
            Re: sysadmin in training Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de> - 2023-05-13 04:10 +0200
            Re: sysadmin in training Olaf Dietsche <olaf+list.debian-security@olafdietsche.de> - 2023-05-13 14:40 +0200

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