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depontius
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Over on another thread, someone was asking about hardened Gentoo with systemd.
So today on Slashdot there was an article on TrueCrypt, which is discontinued, but had long stood on its security and audits.
| Quote: | | 'It's impossible to tell if the new flaws discovered by Forshaw were introduced intentionally or not, but they do show that despite professional code audits, serious bugs can remain undiscovered,' writes Lucian Constantin |
http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/09/29/1717241/newly-found-truecrypt-flaw-allows-full-system-compromise
Audits are a good idea, but no guarantee.
It'll be interesting to see how Linux server deployments go, now that systemd has nearly taken over the distribution space.
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Re; TrueCrypt
It's disconcerting that the US Postal service runs Fedora (not even RHEL) on their servers which handle not only e-mail but all the in-process mail information. It's an integrated part of their processing network. OTOH, I;'m not sure but I think IRS uses Windows. I know USPS uses Windows for their personnel databases (breached last October) because you need IE (v9 or above) to access them. That's ONLY IE, a sure sign of a windows system. I suspect they use Linux for the mail processing because Windows is too slow, although most of the embedded computers in the process machinery use XP, some still uses NT. The last DOS systems were removed a few years ago. |
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gwr
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| Don't worry, soon all of this data will be in "the cloud" and everything will be better. </sarcasm> |
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gwr
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True. Testing and audits can only prove the existence of a error, not the absence of one. That's why software should be as dumb simple as possible. systemd does not fit that description. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| gwr wrote: |
True. Testing and audits can only prove the existence of a error, not the absence of one. That's why software should be as dumb simple as possible. systemd does not fit that description. |
Testing is only as good as the test vectors. Such test vectors may provide incomplete coverage, have their own bugs or incorrectly exercise an area under test (worst-case false pass..)
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| gwr wrote: | | True. Testing and audits can only prove the existence of a error, not the absence of one. That's why software should be as dumb simple as possible. systemd does not fit that description. |
Especially software that's always running (and running as root no less) regardless of what the machine is being used for. I'd love to know exactly what percentage of systemd code is completely unnecessary on a headless server for example.
The systemd folks seem to come from Windows land where none of these concepts matter. |
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gwr
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| tld wrote: |
The systemd folks seem to come from Windows land where none of these concepts matter. |
I'd argue it also mattered over there, too, but no one there gave a damn. |
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| gwr wrote: | | tld wrote: |
The systemd folks seem to come from Windows land where none of these concepts matter. |
I'd argue it also mattered over there, too, but no one there gave a damn. |
True! Very true! |
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| tld wrote: | I'd love to know exactly what percentage of systemd code is completely unnecessary on a headless server for example.
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How about a complete container manager that you can't compile out, despite Poettering stating that almost all components are optional? You would think that a container implementation is optional.
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depontius
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Interestingly Poettering has now come out and said that systemd is meant for distro maintainers to configure and tune, not end users.
Maybe it's time to take that quote and go see Stallman and ESR with that in hand. The initial reason for the GPL was the "right to repair", and L.P. has just said that users don't get to do that.
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gwr
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| depontius wrote: | Interestingly Poettering has now come out and said that systemd is meant for distro maintainers to configure and tune, not end users.
Maybe it's time to take that quote and go see Stallman and ESR with that in hand. The initial reason for the GPL was the "right to repair", and L.P. has just said that users don't get to do that. |
Well, technically you can repair it, given enough time and resources because the code is "open". I think he would be more vocal on the aspect of it allowing applications to bypass the GPL. |
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roki942
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| depontius wrote: | | Interestingly Poettering has now come out and said that systemd is meant for distro maintainers to configure and tune, not end users. |
I find it interesting that he also seems to be lumping in all of you sys admins as "end users". |
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Sadly not unique to systemd.
Over at a small/hobbyist distro, one guy was trying to prep a new release. He ran into some issues trying to get Xorg to compile and reached out to their devs for assistance. The response was "why on earth are you compiling from source?! Go get one of the big name distros and use that already!".
In a wider sense, for systemd, and various other Linux related projects, the only two things that count is the container/VM cluster and the desktop.
This is why you see them reversing the long standing handling of mount failures etc, because they expect you to have direct console access anyways. No need to bring up the system in root only mode with a network connection, because either it is on a desktop with the guy right there, or in a container/VM (preferably on big name server hardware with something like Intel VPRO/AMT).
In essence the pro and con systemd people are talking right past each other. The pro people have their heads in the *aaS cloud, while the con people are experienced sysadmins that know that servers come all manner of shapes and sizes (and that the reason *nix has survived to this day because a well maintained *nix box with a UPS can sit in a walled up closet for years doing its thing).
Frankly it may well be that the success of the LAMP stack is coming back to bite the wider Linux world in the ass. Poettering seems to have started out running some rudimentary LAMP setup, then poked at the (GNOME) desktop, then started NIH-ing various things (Pulseaudio, Avahi, Systemd) and inching his way towards the kernel in the process.
But his basic approach to development is still the web way (or as Zuckerberg put it "move fast and break things"). Pretty much the polar opposite of how *nix development as been done, and in particular how Torvalds run Linux development.
So yeah, in the systemd world sysadmins no longer exist to do: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/devotion_to_duty.png |
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gwr
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reached out to their devs for assistance. The response was "why on earth are you compiling from source?! Go get one of the big name distros and use that already!". |
A dev said that? Sigh. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| gwr wrote: | | Quote: |
reached out to their devs for assistance. The response was "why on earth are you compiling from source?! Go get one of the big name distros and use that already!". |
A dev said that? Sigh. |
So who was saying that?
| digi_owl wrote: | | He ran into some issues trying to get Xorg to compile and reached out to their devs for assistance. |
Hmm. Xorg, a project that works in lockstep with freedesktop.org. 'Nuff said. |
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| gwr wrote: | | Quote: |
reached out to their devs for assistance. The response was "why on earth are you compiling from source?! Go get one of the big name distros and use that already!". |
A dev said that? Sigh. |
Well it's possible but in my experience I doubt it, I've been to several of them over the years and they were nothing but helpful or passed me on to someone else that could help, at least in the cases where that somebody else didn't invite themselves to the convo.
Since it's comparison to systemd devs my experience has not differed there. Nothing but helpful when I've gone to them be it in irc, on the ml or in person on 2 occasions for that matter.
I'd love to see some logs or something, even if just for context. |
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digi_owl
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| Sorry to say the statement was made a couple of years back and on IRC, so i dunno of any logs exist. |
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| digi_owl wrote: | | Sorry to say the statement was made a couple of years back and on IRC, so i dunno of any logs exist. |
bad, bad you
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| krinn wrote: | | if you really need to make quote without source, here's the howto |
OMG that is so funny! I remember reading it at the time, but with distance it's simply hilarious.
Here's my fave bit:
| Quote: | "Roads are broken: people keep dying getting out of the road with my car, but it's not because my car has no steering-wheel, it's because someone made roads with curves!
So my car works perfectly even on curved roads, but making curved roads is a broken concept. My car is only the messenger." |
I highly recommend people read it for both a laugh, and the absolutely spot-on substantive points being made. |
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| krinn wrote: | | if you really need to make quote without source, here's the howto |
krinn ... why go to such lengths, with systemd such matters of conjecture are 110% easierd, and fasterd. Yeah, KISS (keep-it-simple-systemd) ... "innovation", "legacy", "broken", etc, etc, are all at your disposal. If there is some difficult 'problem' then throw a curve ball so none can make out what a "strict policy" means when "gently push[ed]".
Systemd is an innovation in the way that we communicate, legacy communication is broken ... stop spreading FUDGE! ;)
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1st mainstream "fork" of the kernel under the guise of the SJW has occurred. Just need sysd throwing their weight behind this and we'll.
I guess I need to start looking at windows again
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| Naib wrote: | 1st mainstream "fork" of the kernel under the guise of the SJW has occurred. Just need sysd throwing their weight behind this and we'll.
I guess I need to start looking at windows again |
Yet another fork that will go nowhere because some overly-coddled pipsqueek thinks that because he has a keyboard, his ideas must be heard. It is the new mating call when someone doesn't get their way and the badger a mailing list until someone is forced to tell them off, they suddenly decry how offended they are. |
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| Naib wrote: | 1st mainstream "fork" of the kernel under the guise of the SJW has occurred. Just need sysd throwing their weight behind this and we'll.
I guess I need to start looking at windows again |
how long before they apply the newly adopted code of conduct against key kernel devs like Linus via the Linux Foundation to try to pry it away from him? If Linus continues to maintain a branch, he will likely win*, but I can see Linus giving a big middle finger to everyone and walking away from the kernel to do something else at some point.
* unless RH decides to leverage their position and basically wrestles the kernel away, given that all but a small handful of Linux distros are essentially downstream of RH now that they've adopted systemd (making the key kernels the android fork, the RH fork and the Linus "pure" branch). Let's say RH forces kdbus into their fork (plus maybe some other stuff for good measure), makes it mandatory for systemd and now all of the systemd using distros are essentially bound to the RH kernel unless Linus plays along, in which case, he's no longer the de facto kernel lead. |
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gwr
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 6:50 am Post subject: |
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how long before they apply the newly adopted code of conduct against key kernel devs like Linus via the Linux Foundation to try to pry it away from him? If Linus continues to maintain a branch, he will likely win*, but I can see Linus giving a big middle finger to everyone and walking away from the kernel to do something else at some point.
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That would be the writing on the wall for open source software. It would no longer be a meritocracy of technical skills, but a buracracy of political correctness. |
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