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Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> I've been thinking about a restricted profile for servers. It should be |
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> minimal (no crap useflags) and as secure as possible by default. |
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> What I think should be in there: |
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I've actually been meaning to work through such a profile for a while |
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now, just haven't had time yet. |
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> - no X and multimedia useflags by default (-esd -gnome -gtk -kde ...) |
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Off by default yes, it shouldn't be in use.mask however. |
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> - put a dhcp client back in system. Not having that sucks, and we can |
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> spare the 135kB installed. |
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I suppose this is ok, though I still think this needs to be up to the |
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admin. Its not just the concern about the space it uses, but its another |
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piece of a puzzle someone may not want on their system. |
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> - put gentoolkit in. equery, revdep-rebuild etc. are needed. |
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Yup, good idea. |
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> - having cron, atd, ... in system would be nice, do we want that? |
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Leave this up to the sysadmin to decide. |
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> - use as much from hardened profiles as we can. SSP is good :-) |
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I'd say use the hardened profile as a nice model to go after. It |
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wouldn't take much to remove hardened specific parts of that profile and |
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create a new basic one out of it. We should still have separate profiles |
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from them. Generally, their profile is perfect for a server if you want |
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hardened related stuff. |
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> (- use hardened-sources by default if possible, PaX etc. is very very |
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> good ) |
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Leave the kernel source choice up to the sysadmin |
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> - keep default CFLAGS simple - "-O2 -pipe" should be good enough |
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Yup |
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> What applications do you install on every system? What sshould be |
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> provided for logging, monitoring, intrusion detection? |
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> Is there anything that sucks in the default profiles? |
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I don't think we should add much in the system profile. This decision |
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should still be up to the sysadmin. The hardened profile pretty much |
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sums up a good format for a basic server install. |
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