Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm...
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:30:40
Message-Id: 20111211203044.17d9019d.ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm... by Sven Vermeulen
1 On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:18:51 +0000
2 Sven Vermeulen wrote:
3
4 > Also consider hardening your system settings-wise. I would appreciate if you
5 > take a look at
6 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/docs/previews/oval/gentoo-xccdf-guide.html.
7 > With the instructions given, you can even have your system validated (as far
8 > as possible) automatically.
9
10 I was expecting to find here what one distro uses which is binary
11 signature checking upon execution.
12
13 Another thing that I try to do as a better method of TPE which is a
14 breeze on OpenBSD and sometimes I find myself working against Linux
15 developers¹ is to make it so that any writeable area of the filesystem
16 is mounted noexec and mounts have the least priviledges required.
17
18
19 ¹ "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/880965"
20 set as won't fix and also e.g. apt-get expecting /tmp exec.

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Re: [gentoo-hardened] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm... Matthew Finkel <matthew.finkel@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-hardened] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm... "Anthony G. Basile" <basile@××××××××××××××.edu>