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• How are the "-updates" and "-security" pockets different?

  • -updates includes things that have gone through the StableReleaseUpdates process, and contain various important bug fixes.

  • -security includes only updated packages that contain security-related fixes, and are built to not require anything from "-updates".

• How do I automatically install security updates?

  • https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates

Packages

• Where did mod_security go?

  • The license to mod_security did not allow for redistribution, so it was removed from Debian and Ubuntu after Dapper (6.06):

    • http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313615

    • http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.legal/browse_thread/thread/d4b4a74c82042abd

Strange Behavior

• When I use sudo via ssh, I can see the password as I type it. How do I fix that?

  • There is no "tty" allocated when running commands directly via ssh, please add the "-t" flag.

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