Re: [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups

[Ronan Mullally]

On Mon, 21 May 2007, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:

> But, of course, if they got access to the box, then the compiler is the
> least of your problems at that time, but I have to admit that the
> "slowing the attacker down" is an extra layer of protection. It provides
> the sysadmins/users/monitoring software more time to detect the breach.

Removing development tools is one of just a range of security measures.
It is by no means the be-all and end-all of security - hence my mention of
security in depth.  There are easily a couple of dozen security measures I
implement when installing a box.  Removing development tools (or in most
cases, never installing them) is just one of them, but we diverge...

Back to the original question.  How do I run a number of gentoo boxes
without gcc (or a portage tree)?


-Ronan
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