[ale] CRITICAL LINUX FLAW OPENS THE DOOR TO FULL ROOT ACCESS (RHE)

[Solomon Peachy]

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 01:17:17PM -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> > In networks I've administered, everything but the DHCP server and the 
> > core routers has their (static!) addresses assigned via DHCP.
> 
> Why?

This way every system has its network parameters configured the same 
way (automatically), which also provides a mechanism to change things 
without having to touch every system.

(Eg deploying a new DNS or NTP server.  Or using the DHCP custom 
 attributes for additional parameters.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Coconut Creek, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
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