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From: Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Profile switch: hardened to non-hardened?
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:52:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1230616337.5528.9.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10812291705r12a6ac9akb4360eac91d8995e@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 17:05 -0800, Grant wrote:
> >> What else would you recommend for me?
> >
> > I'd suggest to completely ignore the grsec (low/med/high) options and
> > use the Hardened Gentoo level in the hardened-sources all the time.
> >
> > Xorg should not cause problems unless you are stuck using 3rd party
> > binary drivers. Most of us are using a hardened X setup.
> 
> Excellent, thank you.  You think the "Hardened Gentoo (workstation)"
> and "Hardened Gentoo (server)" grsecurity setups are adequate
> low-maintenance solutions?


Re: "low maintenance" 
I'm not sure we can dumb down the hardening efforts anymore than we
already have. It's all pretty transparent and seems mostly like a normal
install of anything else. The ELF's are just smarter.

> What does a hardened profile do for my server?

Enables things to match the kernel options/blocks things that conflict.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-30  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-23 21:23 [gentoo-hardened] Profile switch: hardened to non-hardened? Grant
2008-12-23 21:33 ` Ned Ludd
2008-12-23 21:43 ` Marc Lemaire
2008-12-23 21:56   ` Grant
2008-12-23 22:15     ` Vlad "SATtva" Miller
2008-12-23 23:29       ` Cyprien Nicolas
2008-12-24 15:46     ` [gentoo-hardened] " 7v5w7go9ub0o
2008-12-23 22:31   ` [gentoo-hardened] " Grant
2008-12-24 17:03   ` Grant
2008-12-25  0:21     ` Gordon Malm
2008-12-25 15:12       ` Grant
2008-12-25 16:30         ` Javier J. Martínez Cabezón
2008-12-26  1:52           ` Grant
2008-12-26 19:17             ` Javier J. Martínez Cabezón
2008-12-26 20:47               ` Grant
2008-12-27  8:49                 ` Javier J. Martínez Cabezón
2008-12-27 15:47                   ` Grant
2008-12-27 16:18                     ` Javier J. Martínez Cabezón
2008-12-27 20:30                       ` Grant
2008-12-27 22:35                         ` Ned Ludd
2008-12-30  1:05                           ` Grant
2008-12-30  5:52                             ` Ned Ludd [this message]
2008-12-30 20:31                               ` Grant
2008-12-30 21:44                                 ` Ned Ludd
2009-01-01 16:22                                   ` Grant

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