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On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:52:51PM +0200, Fabian Steiner wrote: |
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> * What's the difference between GrSecurity und SELinux? There are both |
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> in der kernel - so may one use both of them at the same time? |
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> * Moreover, there are two different portage profiles available - |
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> hardened and selinux. When do I have to use them? |
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Go ahead and read thru: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/hardenedfaq.xml |
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If you have not already, this can answer your questions better and |
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provides links to the "sub-projects" homepages so you can evaluate |
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what/which options you would like to implement. Most likely you read |
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this and saw that it pointed you here. :) |
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Grsec is a series of kernel patches that include PaX and grsec's own role |
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based access control. I choose to use these as they are what brought me |
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to hardended-gentoo in the first place as I manually patched and used |
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them in the past. |
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As far as the profiles go, use HARDENED for grsec and then (by |
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exclusion) I can only assume that one would use SELINUX for SELinux. You |
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can intermingle the two "systems" as they are a series of kernel patches |
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and configurations, but you have to choose one access control system, so |
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people seem to tend towards using grsec with pax (hardened) and/or |
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SELinux with RSBAC I believe. |
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I have not personally used SElinux and RSBAC so others will have to |
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comment on this. |
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http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm |
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http://www.rsbac.org/why |
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It seems it's a bit more popular here and looks to have a pretty large |
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community outside of just gentoo. So your support and help options may |
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be greater there, dunno. |
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Dave |
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