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Re: Debian default desktop environment



On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 10:39 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
> > We use FAI for that. 99% of our servers don't even have a CD drive
> > anymore, just some of the older ones. And even if you want to install
> > from CD, most modern servers provide a BMC with keyboard, mouse and
> > video redirect over the network which also allows you to mount ISO
> > files as virtual CDs.
> 
> Ah, BMC.  Now every computer comes with an extra full-fledged computer!
> The main computer is for your use, and the other computer is for the use
> of the attacker.

That ship sailed long ago. :-/

Some BMCs (like recent iDRAC) run Linux which means there may be some
opportunity for an outside project to modify and improve their security.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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