Hi,
Actually, it's morning here (and pretty damp - there's a cyclone up North).
Thanks for the comment about Mandrake's interface - I'm curious to see it,
but it's a little outside my area which is "unix/linux security".
Who knows what you saw in that "bunker", it cant have been that
important..... you got to see it .... <just a bit cheekiness> :-)
But your story is amusing.
Bastille's written in perl and I've seen some bad comments. A shame.
There's also YASSP and Titan (both for Solaris).... and there's Mourani's
open source book on securing and optimising RedHat. There's also the
Openwall project's kernel patches...
I was hoping for comments on hardening (kernel and system) and maybe
comparisons of the packet filtering applications for the linux distributions.
regards,
Robyn Mills
(independent contractor)
At 04:24 PM 31-01-01 -0800, Dave Laird wrote:
>Good evening, Robyn...
>
>On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Robyn Mills wrote:
>
> > As for my opinion on some of the free OSes,
<snip>
> > I've also heard that Mandrake has done great work with it's interface.
>
>I can swear by it! I don't know much about running Mandrake as a server,
>but their new workstation stuff is really attractive, highly functional
>and well-documented. The new 3-D icons on the desktop are *really* nice,
>and it has better video card support than any of its predecessors.
>
> > ***
> > I'd be interested to hear anyone's opinions of:
> > - NSA's secure linux
>
>I believe that was what I recently saw in action in a secure government
>facility, but I could be wrong. Even the logon prompt at the terminal
>was encrypted, and no one other than security people were allowed to
>touch it. ;-)
>
> > Bastille (hardening script for RH)
>
>I also witnessed this in use, but fortunately, *I* wasn't the one who
>had to figure out the documentation which I gather, from listening to
>the profuse comments, was not terribly well-written.
>
>Dave
>--
>Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>The Used Kharma Lot
>Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 12/28/2000
>
>There's a whole WORLD in a mud puddle!
> -- Doug Clifford
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