Managing Security Risk on RHEL 8
This blog post is mainly about my practicing of managing security risk on a RHEL system, especially learning how to use the occasionally option passed to YUM command. It is probably not a good resource teaching how to properly manage security risks in general. Identify all critical, important, and moderate security notices on this server. [root@puppet2 ~]# yum updateinfo --security Updating Subscription Management repositories. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - Supplementary (RPMs) 21 kB/s | 2.1 kB 00:00 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) 27 kB/s | 2.8 kB 00:00 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) 475 B/s | 2.4 kB 00:05 EPEL8 x86_64 28 kB/s | 2.8 kB 00:00 Updates Information Summary: available 2 Security notice(s) 2 Important Security notice(s) Determine how many security-related packages are available for this machine. ...