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From: Cyprien Nicolas <c.nicolas@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Which profile?
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:55:11
Message-Id: dd79b93d0902100955j43e4c651gc1f32f27cf0343c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Which profile? by Matthew Summers
1 2009/2/10 Matthew Summers <msummers42@×××××.com>:
2 > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Tom Hendrikx <tom@×××××××××.net> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Clemente Aguiar schreef:
5 >> > I understand that the profiles where updated recently (last year?).
6 >> >
7 >> > Available profile symlink targets:
8 >> > [1] hardened/amd64 *
9 >> > [2] hardened/amd64/multilib
10 >> > [3] selinux/2007.0/amd64
11 >> > [4] selinux/2007.0/amd64/hardened
12 >> > [5] default/linux/amd64/2008.0
13 >> > [6] default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop
14 >> > [7] default/linux/amd64/2008.0/developer
15 >> > [8] default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib
16 >> > [9] default/linux/amd64/2008.0/server
17 >> > [10] hardened/linux/amd64
18 >> >
19 >> > Available profile symlink targets:
20 >> > [1] hardened/x86/2.6 *
21 >> > [2] selinux/2007.0/x86
22 >> > [3] selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened
23 >> > [4] default/linux/x86/2008.0
24 >> > [5] default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop
25 >> > [6] default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer
26 >> > [7] default/linux/x86/2008.0/server
27 >> > [8] hardened/linux/x86
28 >> >
29 >> >
30 >> > I would like to know what hardened profile I should use when I build new
31 >> > machines? (AMD64 as well as x86)
32 >> >
33 >> > Thanks.
34 >> >
35 >> >
36 >> >
37 >>
38 >> A few days ago I switched an x86 machine from "default/linux/x86/2008.0"
39 >> to "hardened/linux/x86/2008.0/server" after some arbitrary rummaging in
40 >> the profiles directory. This gave me no problems other than the expected
41 >> gcc-4 -> gcc-3 downgrade.
42 >>
43 >> I'm not sure why this profile isn't listed in the eselect profile
44 >> listing above. It doesn't give me a big fat "unsupported profile"
45 >> warning though...
46 >>
47 >> Regards,
48 >> Tom
49 >>
50 >
51 >
52 > This is a confusing situation. I am currently using
53 > /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/amd64/2008.0.
54 >
55 > This is not explicitly listed in the output of 'eselect profile list'.
56 >
57 > Perhaps we could sort this out on the list & then I will write a quick doc
58 > to place in the hardened web space to assist other users.
59 >
60 > --
61 > M. Summers
62 >
63 > "...there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something."
64 > - Thomas A. Edison
65 >
66
67 On #gentooo-hardened, I got this answer :
68
69 Feb 04 20:10:51 <Tommy[D]> Anyone can say, which profile of the 2
70 hardened ones are supported here?
71 Feb 04 20:12:01 <gengor> Tommy[D]: use hardened/${ARCH}/2.6
72
73 But it was not listed by Clemente for amd64
74
75 --
76 Cyprien

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Re: [gentoo-hardened] Which profile? Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o>