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On 12/11/2011 03:30 PM, Kevin Chadwick 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 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 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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> 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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How would you handle /etc/ ? You can't separate it from / which needs |
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to be exec and yet /etc/ needs to be writeable. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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Chair of Information Technology |
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