[RHCE] COPS

[Jim Thompson]

When I made up the schedule, I basically sat down at
Barnes & Noble with several RHCE books open, combined
their Tables of Contents and distributed the contents
over 8 meetings (with a little re-organization).  This
is pretty much why it's not possible to actually do
justice to all the topics slated for any particular
day. So, just pick and choose whatever seems most
useful. Perhaps COPS can just be a cypher for "general
knowledge of vulnerability scanners."

However, I kind of doubt we'll be doing a lot of
vulnerability scanning on the debug portion of the
RHCE exam b/c it's hard to ask a direct question about
an absence of something: "Fix a potential
vulnerability on this machine" < "This machine cannot
mount a critical filesystem."

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Hi,
	I took COPS from the list in the syllabus. I assume
some wiser head
(Jim) made the list. Certainly nessus, nmap, hping,
etc are more 
modern.
Notice in my original msg that COPS detects "classic"
vulnerabilities.
On the other hand Nemeth et al. 2002 says "Run it
[COPS] before one of

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