Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Andrei Maxim <runyadil@×××××××.ro>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-hardened] Hardened for a small home network?
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 15:24:48
Message-Id: 40BF42E6.7030405@rdslink.ro
1 Hi,
2
3 In the last 3 weeks I have discovered a lot about Gentoo and its ease of
4 use made me try using my Gentoo Linux box as a web server.
5 After this first successful experience, I have configured Postfix and
6 Squirrelmail and even made some accounts for my friends.
7
8 Right now my #1 concern is related to the security of my computer: it
9 has a static IP address and it gets scanned a couple of hundred times
10 per day (and I'm not kidding!). Having a mail server at hand might be
11 just asking for trouble and I really don't want to spread spam without
12 knowing.
13
14 I have a really small network of 3 computers (two of them being laptops)
15 and the so-called server is also my personal computer which I use on a
16 daily basis.
17 I was wandering if I should switch to Hardened Gentoo on my server (and
18 I am already planning to switch the laptops from Debian to Gentoo) as I
19 know it will make things more secure, but also it might be quite an
20 overkill for such a small network.
21
22 Switching to Hardened Gentoo might mean that I will lose a rather big
23 amount of time to reconfigure everything on my computer, so I really
24 don't want to switch unless it's absolutely necessary.
25
26 I want to run (as a server) Apache, Postfix/Qmail, mailman (or ezmlm?),
27 Squirrelmail and SSH.
28
29 Thanks,
30 Andrei
31
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardened for a small home network? Brandon Hale <tseng@g.o>
[gentoo-hardened] Switching between SELinux and grsecurity Lance Spitzner <lance@××××××××.org>