Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Cc: andrewg@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Grsec and shutdown (unable to umount / )
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:41:12
Message-Id: 1139272723.10903.5.camel@neuromancer.home.net
1 On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 20:44 +0000, andrewg@××××××××××××.org wrote:
2 > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:51:59AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
3 > > Hi All,
4 > >
5 > > I do believe that this is an unsolved issue. I've search through the
6 > > grsec forums and according to it, There is a need to do a gradm -D (to
7 > > disable) gradm prior to be able to do a shutdown. (I've not tried it as
8 > > I don't have access to the system now)
9
10 Okay.. I went back and tried. gradm supposedly isn't set up yet.
11
12 #gradm -S
13 GRSEC is disabled
14
15 So that's not the issue
16
17 > >
18 > > I just want to verify if there is anyone here who also suffers this and
19 > > what are the proper/needed steps to avoid this? (it's really painful to
20 > > have to remember this and do a gradm -D each time)
21 > >
22 >
23 > If you have the sshd flag marked as protected
24
25 Huh. Please elaborate. I'm new to using a hardened kernel/toolchain etc.
26 (but not new to gentoo)
27
28
29 > (in the subject line, put
30 > p or so iirc),
31
32 Again. I don't understand.
33 > it can't kill the ssh process, thus hopefully giving you
34 > a second chance to login and set things right. (Yes, this has saved me
35 > in the past.)
36
37 I get it. I didn't try to see if SSHD was still running. I'll give it
38 another go when I get a chance.
39
40 Many Thanks
41
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43 Ow Mun Heng
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