From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E74Pd-0001FM-M3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:59:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7M4wKpI001974; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:58:20 GMT Received: from smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net (smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net [209.208.0.105]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7M4qWMO026372 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:52:33 GMT Received: (qmail 29061 invoked by uid 0); 22 Aug 2005 04:53:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO croatus) (209.208.34.71) by smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net with SMTP; 22 Aug 2005 04:53:09 -0000 From: "John Dangler" To: Subject: [gentoo-user] security issues Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:53:09 -0400 Message-ID: <00f201c5a6d5$67b7f0c0$0501a8c0@croatus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Archives-Salt: 589ab09e-2a0a-4724-b993-1fdfc3307693 X-Archives-Hash: 8ad27a08a86319ea2f3bcb8993ffc850 With the basic install of gentoo 2.6.12-r9 behind me (forget splash - it's not worth the headaches right now, and I need more research to find a good backup solution), I read through the gentoo security doc. There's a world of stuff here! I have a laptop that I'm intending to use for web development (the geek side) and also for business tasks (the end user side). I'm wondering how much / how little of the security measures mentioned in the gentoo security doc I really need? Or, should I move on to the desktop environment first, and then come back and tighten down the system? Thanks for the input - as always, greatly appreciated. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list