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Which is the most secure *nix?
Post 302503897 by GSO on Saturday 12th of March 2011 10:27:56 AM
03-12-2011
LOL, OK.
One of the reasons open source is more secure than closed being I think that if necessary I can investigate security right down to kernel level. I am not a sys. admin. though, and preferably do not want to have to make a career of this!
I signed up to a Suse trial also, but found I would have had to of built too much of the s/w I needed, and so even though Suse do have an absolutely excellent development platform for users, wound up back with RH. I actually in the first instance found some dry land with OpenBSD, but the OpenBSD browser is generally not the most current release, and BSD browsers are typically not fully debugged security wise. So I had to venture off. Windows (being respectful here
looked to me as though it was hacked before the security updates could be downloaded (I've, at least in the past, been someone who has had hackers sitting on my IP more or less 24 hrs a day). It is no doubt possible to install Windows 7 updates from CD, but I've not as yet figured this out. I can run Windows securely in a virtual machine when I inevitably need to.
As an aside, Linux Magazine have made an article from the current issue on the subject of CCTV projects available on the web:
<<www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2011/125/Security-Lessons-Secure-Video>>
On the same subject this is a recent project of my own:
<<code.google.com/p/gmotion/>>
My own experience is that local crime (if a problem for you) will prefer in the first instance to hack your computer by intrusion and direct access to the keyboard, it's a catch 22 for the crooks though that if you have a secure OS they can't hack your CCTV s/w, and if they can't hack your CCTV s/w, they (mostly) can't intrude
One of the reasons open source is more secure than closed being I think that if necessary I can investigate security right down to kernel level. I am not a sys. admin. though, and preferably do not want to have to make a career of this!
I signed up to a Suse trial also, but found I would have had to of built too much of the s/w I needed, and so even though Suse do have an absolutely excellent development platform for users, wound up back with RH. I actually in the first instance found some dry land with OpenBSD, but the OpenBSD browser is generally not the most current release, and BSD browsers are typically not fully debugged security wise. So I had to venture off. Windows (being respectful here
looked to me as though it was hacked before the security updates could be downloaded (I've, at least in the past, been someone who has had hackers sitting on my IP more or less 24 hrs a day). It is no doubt possible to install Windows 7 updates from CD, but I've not as yet figured this out. I can run Windows securely in a virtual machine when I inevitably need to.As an aside, Linux Magazine have made an article from the current issue on the subject of CCTV projects available on the web:
<<www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2011/125/Security-Lessons-Secure-Video>>
On the same subject this is a recent project of my own:
<<code.google.com/p/gmotion/>>
My own experience is that local crime (if a problem for you) will prefer in the first instance to hack your computer by intrusion and direct access to the keyboard, it's a catch 22 for the crooks though that if you have a secure OS they can't hack your CCTV s/w, and if they can't hack your CCTV s/w, they (mostly) can't intrude
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libloginhelper
libloginhelper(3) C Library Functions libloginhelper(3) NAME
libloginhelper - Login-Helper library for assistive technologies DESCRIPTION
An interface for use by assistive technologies by which they can access system information and services on a 'need to know' basis while the screen is locked, during user authentication, or during other sensitive operations. This interface is intended for use by assistive technologies and related user-enabling services, and by applications and utilities which may wish to restrict access to certain system devices and services during security-sensitive states, e.g. when the screen is locked or dur- ing authentication into some secure service. Such 'applications' (for instance, screen lock dialogs and security-enabled web browsers) use the LoginHelper client interfaces, and the bonobo-activation query service, to query for assistive technologies which advertise the LoginHelper service. The client then queries these assistive technologies for their device I/O requirements, via the getDeviceReqs call. The client may then issue the advisory request set- Safe (TRUE), which requests that the LoginHelper -implementing service make a best-effort attempt to make itself more secure (for instance, an onscreen keyboard might turn off word prediction, and a screenreader may turn off keyboard echo via speech). The return value of setSafe is an advisory indication of whether this attempt was successful (no specific guarantees are implied). Once the 'security sensitive' state is exited, the client should call setSafe (FALSE). The return values from getDeviceReqs inform the client of which services the LoginHelper service (e. g. assistive technology) needs in order to do its job. The client may use this information to loosen any restrictions on access which it may currently have in place (for instance, keyboard grabs, etc.). If it does not do so, the likely outcome is that the end-user will experience loss of access to the sys- tem. Additional information is also available from the following site: http://www.gnome.org/~billh/at-spi-idl/html/classAccessibility_1_1LoginHelper.html FILES
The following files are used by this library: /usr/lib/libloginhelper.so Login-Helper library for assistive technologies ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-a11y-libs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
libatk-1.0(3), libcspi(3), attributes(5), gnome-interfaces(5) NOTES
login-helper module is in at-spi package. SunOS 5.11 7 Aug 2008 libloginhelper(3)