Re: OEL 7

From: Justin Mungal <justin_at_n0de.ws>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:37:29 -0500
Message-ID: <CAO9=aUzOfSirXtSyZjTv3v=PtT-ke5uQ_OOrWFsZN-dUv5JoRQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

So it sounds like they made it completely different from the RHEL7 installation GUI, and it's also awful? I'll have to check it out sometime. The last OL I used was version 6 for some 12c testing. It worked fine. I recall manually disabling SELinux and iptables after the install, however I'm not sure if that could have been done during the installation or not. Looking at some screenshots I have of the OL 6 installation, it looks like firstboot is no longer there (which is where I would disable SELinux and iptables in CentOS 5).

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> The biggest reason is there is no way to disable them during the install
> process. Having them enabled by default is not a big deal, but then having
> to go through the manual disable process is annoying to say the least, and
> a major change from previous versions.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:57 PM, William Muriithi <
> william.muriithi_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > Yeah, that would be interesting to know. To explain further, they have
>> several groups of packages you can choose for installation, but there there
>> is no way to pick and choose individual packages, eg X windows or gnome
>> desktop, only groups, eg network server. If that is intended to copy RHEL,
>> I would have to say neither one has a good understanding of their user base.
>> >
>>
>> You could install minimal, then install whatever you need post operating
>> system install. You can install individual rpm instead of groups then.
>>
>> > Also, selinux and firewall are installed and enabled by default and
>> have to be manually disabled.
>> >
>> Odd, why is this bad? So many current security problems are due to
>> vendors defaulting to insecure setup. They seem to be thinking twice about
>> it these days. Heck, even windows by default have the firewall enabled.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> William
>>
>
>
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> Andrew W. Kerber
>
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