[gentoo-hardened] New to Hardened, few questions before switching to Hardened.

[Wael Nasreddine]

Hello,

I have a server which should run the following servers:
- Apache
- Lighttpd
- postfix, authentications via mysql
- courtier-imap, authentications via authdaemon via mysql
- mysql
- Azureus ( console UI, ran within GNU Screen, controlled via AzSMRC plugin )
- torrentflux ( so mostly perl and python processes )

So obviously the first question is, Does all the required packages above, run
smoothly with Gentoo Hardened?? If not, could you please tell me what
wouldn't and if it could be tweaked to.

On my first try to install it ( a simple chroot on my laptop ), I was
following the gentoo official guide[1], First I ran through a weird
issue, building libselinux failed because asm/page.h not found, so I
just copied it from /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/page.h, but the
second was weirder, The guide[2] states the modification of
/etc/selinux/config file, but I couldn't find this file, is the
guide[1] outdated ?? If yes, Any new/updated guide ??

On the guide[3], I couldn't find all the kernel configs and a lot are
not mentioned, could someone using hardened-sources with the
recommended settings send me the kernel's .config so I could use it as
a start and customise it myself ?? Or perhaps a new/updated guide ??

Finally, I have a question about SELinux and the other security
packages, how hard is it to learn them? I never used them, I mean I'm
using linux since 5 years but never been on an SElinux environment
before...

[1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/selinux/selinux-handbook.xml
[2]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/selinux/selinux-handbook.xml?part=2&chap=3
[3]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/grsecurity.xml

Regards,

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Wael Nasreddine
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