Re: flexfax: sendfax works - faxmail and other frontends don't !!!

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

>                                                             There's no
> need to install other users beyond root: Everybody can become root
> easily - just go to single user mode and get a root shell w/o supplying
> a password - finest Win95-security !

If you operate any secure system in a way which allows access to the console,
you have made it insecure.  Simply load a boot floppy and maintenance root
filesystem and you have the system to yourself.  NT may be slightly better,
but only because it is a closed system, although tools are available to read
the contents of the files.

I think, though, that you need to understand that Red Hat are competing with
Win 95 and NT, which are generally supplied insecure, because that causes
less support problems.  A seasoned Unix administrator would probably only
use a distribution as a starting point then customise it with individual
packages.