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On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk>wrote: |
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> On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:18:51 +0000 |
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> Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> > Also consider hardening your system settings-wise. I would appreciate if |
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> you |
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> > take a look at |
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> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/docs/previews/oval/gentoo-xccdf-guide.html. |
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> > With the instructions given, you can even have your system validated (as |
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> far |
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> > as possible) automatically. |
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> I was expecting to find here what one distro uses which is binary |
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> signature checking upon execution. |
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> Another thing that I try to do as a better method of TPE which is a |
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> breeze on OpenBSD and sometimes I find myself working against Linux |
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> developers¹ is to make it so that any writeable area of the filesystem |
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> is mounted noexec and mounts have the least priviledges required. |
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If don't mind my asking, what is it that OpenBSD does differently than the |
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Linux distros that make it so much easier? Do they actually follow the |
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security practices you mentioned in the bug report? |
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> ¹ "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/880965" |
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> set as won't fix and also e.g. apt-get expecting /tmp exec. |
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Thanks, |
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Matt |
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Matthew Finkel |
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