Hi there,

I've submitted a few patches to the Gentoo Security Guide lately and after 
submitting these I tried to get a bit more in detail with the guide. I tried 
to use the metalog.conf example. And it is not working.

The problem lies here:

Critical :
  facility = "critical"
  command  = "/usr/local/sbin/pwdfail.sh" 

As there is apparently no facility called critical I think it should perhaps 
be something like:

Everything very important :

  facility = "*"
  minimum  = 1
 logdir   = "/var/log/critical"

Which is already in the default metalog.conf.

Furthermore I checked the USE flags and naturally pam, ssl and tcpd is in the 
default USE flags in /etc/make.profile/make.defaults. So this section is also 
rather pointless.

This leads me to wonder wether the rest of the stuff I have not checked is in 
a similar bad shape? Also is the targeted group of users the correct one of 
the Gentoo Security Guide? I wonder if it would be easier making a quality 
guide for Gentoo users if it was smaller and more focused on the average 
user?

Before using any more time on the guide I would like to hear your opinions on 
what should be done. Should I start a rewrite and if so what should be in the 
guide? Also if anybody would help out with this work it would be greatly 
appreciated.

/Sune

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