Re: most secure services (DNS, Web, Mail)

[Shri Shrikumar <shri@urbyte.com>]

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> > The machine is 200Mhz with 96Mb RAM. It already takes care of my
> > personal as well as some work mail(including this list) and apache for
> > the webmail stuff and PHPgroupware, so its under a bit of
> 
> woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. hold it.............
> 
> maybe its just me but it seems phpgroupware earns more rights to
> have security advisories then the other apps ..at least from what
> ive seen on vuln-dev and bugtraq.....phpgroupware seems to come up
> a LOT. maybe just because its widely used, i don't know. but theres
> been what seems to be a ton of security issues with it in the recent
> past
> 
> my opinion is phpgroupware is probably your weakest link here.
> 
> maybe look into something like ezpub - http://developer.ez.no
> but i dont know what your needs are. and i don't know if ezpub
> is secure, i just don't remember seeing advisories on it yet.

PHPGroupware is just for internal stuff. I *dont* want to give access to
that for the external hits. Presumably, PHPGroupware wouldn't make the
machine less secure if used like this.

Thanks,


Shri



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