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On Sunday 19 March 2006 20:42, Thomas Eschenbacher wrote: |
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> Chris PeBenito wrote: |
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> > [...] |
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> > |
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> > Unfortunately this is your problem: |
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> >>kernel "2.6.14-hardened-r5", |
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> >>XFS as root filesystem |
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> > |
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> > please see: |
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> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-hardened&m=113433863728029&w=2 |
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> > |
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> > XFS should be fixed in 2.6.16. |
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> |
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> Thanks for your quick reply! |
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> So it seems that I have the following options: |
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> A) wait some weeks (or months?) until 2.6.16-hardened is out, run in |
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> permissive mode meanwhile. |
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> B) take the sources of kernel 2.6.16-rc6, apply the SELinux patch |
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> against it and replace the "fs/xfs" directory of my old |
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> 2.6.14-hardened-r5 source tree with the one from the new version. Will |
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> this "backport" work, is this compatible? |
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> |
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> C) switch to a different filesystem. My only options seem to be: |
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> 1. ext2/ext3 -> I hate running e2fsck, no options. |
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> 2. reiserfs -> officially unsupported for SELinux |
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> 3. XFS -> obviously doesn't work in this version |
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> 4. JFS -> any experience? |
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> Any suggestions or other alternatives? |
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> Thomas |
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Hi, |
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Choise A) seems to be a middle way between B) and C). |
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IMHO B) is worst (if it even works), as it seems that most if not all hardened |
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projects will skip 2.6.15 (too many changes etc., put your reasons here) and |
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go to 2.6.16. |
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So B) will very probably break things. Better try 2.6.16_rc6+patches. |
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PaX has a patch for 2.6.16_rc6-test3 (IIRC) so eventually grsec2 will catch up |
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for 2.6.16. |
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SElinux also goes to 2.6.16_rc6, think RSBAC will follow this path too. |
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Path C) seems to be the quickest path by now. |
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Why not use 'ext3' as a filesystem? |
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HTH.Rumen |
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