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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to harden a system
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 18:09:33
Message-Id: 2471030.HhX1U1KkD7@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to harden a system by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Saturday, 23 December 2017 17:46:20 GMT Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 12/23/2017 09:09 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > Hello list,
4 > >
5 > > Now that grsecurity is off-limits, I'm left wondering how to go about
6 > > hardening a no-multilib box that will be exposed to the Big Bad World.
7 >
8 > You can still use grsec/pax if you're willing to stick with an older
9 > (LTS) kernel:
10 >
11 > https://github.com/minipli/linux-unofficial_grsec/tree/linux-4.9.x-unoffic
12 > ial_grsec
13
14 Oh, that's good - thanks Michael.
15
16 > > To start with, it's not obvious which profile to use:
17 > >
18 > > $ eselect profile list | grep no-multi | grep hardened
19 > >
20 > > [23] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened
21 > > [24] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened/selinux
22 >
23 > One of those two, depending on whether or not you use SELinux.
24
25 Thanks again for the advice.
26
27 --
28 Regards,
29 Peter.