Re: ridiculous situation

Write up a decently detailed plan for migrating each of the running services off the machines onto newly installed, secure boxes. You can't trust those machines, you can't really trust the previous administrator(s), and you can't trust what you don't know.

Since it's just five machines, it wouldn't take a lot of time to dig through the machines, find out what they do, how they do it, and then move all of that stuff elsewhere.

Just make sure you write up a proposoal and migration plan first, and then follow it -- making notes as you go along so it's all documented.

I've been through this situation several times, unfortunately. The goal is not to go around replacing every machine when you first start a new job, or inherit new responsibilities, but to assess each new device as a security risk and take the appropriate actions.

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:06:12PM -0800, harley mcdonald wrote:
> hi,
>
> this is kinda broad...say you've inherited 5 ( R.H.

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