From: Ronan Mullally <ronan@iol.ie>
To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:30:10 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705211525330.9909@office.4L> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705211544.10900.bangert@gentoo.org>
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Thilo Bangert wrote:
> > I've held off on using Gentoo in larger deployments because the idea of
> > putting a C compiler on a production box is just silly.
>
> why?
>
> some production quality software _requires_ a compiler to run.
> http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/FAQ
As do many rootkits. If somebody gets local access to a server with a
suite of development tools they're well on their way to rooting the box.
Removing these tools is simply a good example of security in depth.
-Ronan
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-20 18:29 [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups Charles Duffy
2007-05-20 20:20 ` Nicolas MASSE
2007-05-20 20:34 ` Charles Duffy
2007-05-20 21:25 ` Ramon van Alteren
2007-05-21 9:04 ` Ronan Mullally
2007-05-21 13:44 ` Thilo Bangert
2007-05-21 14:30 ` Ronan Mullally [this message]
2007-05-21 14:36 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-05-21 14:53 ` Ronan Mullally
2007-05-21 15:01 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-05-21 15:28 ` Christian Bricart
2007-05-21 15:54 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-05-22 4:19 ` Justin Cataldo
2007-05-22 4:59 ` Brian Kroth
2007-05-21 15:10 ` Karl Holz
2007-05-21 15:51 ` Ronan Mullally
2007-05-21 16:27 ` Ryan Gibbons
2007-05-21 17:29 ` Ronan Mullally
2007-05-21 17:35 ` Petteri Räty
2007-05-21 17:46 ` Ronan Mullally
2007-05-21 17:47 ` José Costa
2007-05-21 17:54 ` José Costa
2007-05-21 22:58 ` Karl Holz
2007-05-21 23:11 ` Ramon van Alteren
2007-05-22 5:10 ` Brian Kroth
2007-05-22 16:54 ` Charles Duffy
2007-05-22 17:23 ` Wendall Cada
2007-05-22 21:06 ` [gentoo-server] " Charles Duffy
2007-05-23 1:33 ` Wendall Cada
2007-05-23 7:37 ` [gentoo-server] " Ramon van Alteren
2007-05-23 12:28 ` Andrew Gaffney
2007-05-23 13:03 ` Ramon van Alteren
2007-05-23 13:46 ` Andrew Gaffney
2007-05-26 9:53 ` Thilo Bangert
2007-05-22 12:58 ` Tomasz Szymczak
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