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Hmm. As long as nothing is setuid, mere presence of different language interpreters doesn't sound like it would make much difference. I suppose a nicely set u
by downerending 7y ago
Hmm. As long as nothing is setuid, mere presence of different language interpreters doesn't sound like it would make much difference.
I suppose a nicely set up host would be a bit more attractive as a target, and similarly a VMS box not be an attractive target, no matter how insecure it is. Still, I wouldn't want to switch back to VMS.
- Lammy 7y agoWell in the case I'm remembering a lot of setuid system utilities were written in Perl and had to be re-written in C before the interpreter and libraries could be excised. I don't know to what extent Python 2 exhibits that problem for most *nix systems.
- downerending 7y agoI agree completely with switching the language for various distribution utilities to more modern languages as needed. I'm rather arguing against removing vanilla language environments that have attained the status of being ubiquitous, e.g., to save space or militate against the usage of "old" languages.
- rbanffy 7y agoI you find a VMS box deployed, you can bet it's controlling something really, really important nobody wants to mess with. Either that, or it's a machine someone forgot to decommission and that's still there, sitting in a cabinet, eagerly waiting for that terminal connection that'll never come.