[wellylug] Newbie starting BWBasic - Linz

[Andrew Stephen]

On 5/3/05, jfouhy at paradise.net.nz <jfouhy at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On 2/05/2005, at 10:15 AM, Simon Antliff wrote:
> > I ask this, because some people say you should obfuscate your sbin and
> > bin locations for security reasons. Does this mean going through the
> > headaches of failed scripts unless you're careful?
> 
> The standard technique is to put symlinks in /bin and /sbin pointing to the new
> location of the binaries, so that your existing scripts will not break.  This
> way, you get the benefits of obfuscation without many of the downsides (although
> you may still have trouble with upgrading packages, as apt/rpm/whatever won't
> know where things are).

This is obviously some stange use of the word "obfuscation" that I
wasn't previously aware of.  Indeed the usage of the words "security"
and "benefit" in this thread appear to be misleading except where
preceeded by the phrase "doing this will provide absolutely no form
of..."

I hope this helps.

-- 
Andrew Stephen  CISSP, CISA, CISM
http://www.evil.geek.nz/