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From: "Peter Böhm" <peter.bo@web.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, ralfconn <mentadent47@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hardened vs desktop
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:22:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5727375.DvuYhMxLoT@sun> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a315a667-f04b-4be8-89dc-59305a5553ef@yahoo.com>

Am Montag, 13. November 2023, 11:19:26 CET schrieb ralfconn:
> Hello,
>
> I've been running the desktop profile for years. Now I'm thinking to
> switch to the hardened. Since there is no 'hardened desktop' profile,
> the hint I found online is to note the current desktop USEs, switch to
> hardened and add the USEs not found there, but I wonder if it is really
> the best option. Comparing the two profiles, hardened seems a sub-set of
> desktop with the addition of:
>
> cet
> hardened
> pie
> ssp
> xtpax
>
> It seems to me easier to add these to the desktop rather the other way
> round. Any gotcha's I am missing?

Yes, you are missing that the best solution is: Make a new profile which
contains both profiles. See more here:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8694188.html#8694188

(And you have to start with a hardened stage3)

Many greetings,
Peter

P.S.: Maybe read also the first note from this article:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/
Kernel_Hardening_with_KSPP




  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-11-13 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <a315a667-f04b-4be8-89dc-59305a5553ef.ref@yahoo.com>
2023-11-13 10:19 ` [gentoo-user] hardened vs desktop ralfconn
2023-11-13 12:12   ` Michael Orlitzky
2023-11-13 13:22   ` Peter Böhm [this message]
2023-11-13 16:43     ` ralfconn
2023-11-13 19:03       ` Peter Böhm

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