Re: Security through paranoia 2

2001-04-01 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 06:02:09PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some messages I received told me that some users already have > some of this "paranoid" tools tunned. Could we get this stuff together? > Maybe creating a sub-project or a workgroup to accomplish this? Is there > anything al

Re: Security through paranoia 2

2001-03-31 Thread John Patton
In thinking about the possibility of creating a more secure version of debian linux, I wonder if suid programs should not be automatically compiled with Stack Guard (or the like) and linked to libs with Format Guard. The Stack Guard part would be really easy, although Format Guard may be a little t

Security through paranoia 2

2001-03-31 Thread DrPablo
Hello ALL! I'd like to thanx everyone who replied (even those flames I received directly, with no echo through the list...>/dev/null). Well.. maybe a new port is too much. Maybe some task-secure-system (or whatever), kernel-hardened and harden-XXX XX packages are a better approach

Re: Security through paranoia

2001-03-30 Thread John Patton
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:48:28PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that this is generally a great idea. There is definately a need for a more secure system than the default, and besides, efforts to create a fortified port could lead to improvements in the standard distro as well. >

Security through paranoia

2001-03-30 Thread DrPablo
Hello! I'm a Debian user since its hamm release. Some of the things that always woried me (and I guess, a couple of other users) is the lack of security hardening in the Debian distro. This email is to report some idea I've got sometime ago. I have already posted this idea to debian-user,