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On Sunday 21 April 2002 23:23, Joachim Blaabjerg wrote: |
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> I would really like to go back to older, patched releases of some software, |
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> for stability. In my opinion, stability is about as important as security |
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> in Secure Gentoo. Is that okay, and if it is, how should it be carried out? |
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I think this should be coordinated with the people that want to introduce |
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different kinds of "currentness levels". Then you can just use the stable |
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branch for the secure Gentoo too. |
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Also I'd say even a normal gentoo install should be as secure as possible. I |
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for example made some quake and halflife ebuilds. Of course you can just run |
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the server as root, its all so simple but I made an extra user for each of |
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them and the server gets started as q3 and hl user respectively. It's not too |
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hard to do such things in your ebuild but it will make it easier to have a |
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secure gentoo install without too much hassle. |
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If every single package obeys to some simple security rules, the rest is much |
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simpler to do. |
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Alex |
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-- |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety |
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deserve neither liberty nor safety." |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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