Re: SELinux on Squeeze?

2012-01-03 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
Hello again, I installed a fresh Squeeze in a VM and activated SELinux as the wiki page recommends. It works just fine (including DHCP - I tried the default packages in Squeeze, didn't try Russell's since everything worked anyway), with just a few caveats: - bootmisc.sh doesn't seem to

Re: SELinux on Squeeze?

2011-12-31 Thread Holger Levsen
Dear Russell, On Freitag, 30. Dezember 2011, Russell Coker wrote: I can't imagine what the benefit would be in using official packages that I created and uploaded to Debian over using unofficial packages that I created and couldn't get in a Squeeze update Frankly, your lack of imagination is

Re: SELinux on Squeeze?

2011-12-31 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
On 12/31/11 02:55 , Russell Coker wrote: Support for NX etc is a kernel/hardware issue. AMD64 hardware is more capable in this regard but there are kernel patches to provide similar things for i386. I'm not sure of the status of this in Debian. Debian used to have Exec-shield, Ingo Molnar's

Re: SELinux on Squeeze?

2011-12-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: On Freitag, 30. Dezember 2011, Russell Coker wrote: I can't imagine what the benefit would be in using official packages that I created and uploaded to Debian over using unofficial packages that I created and couldn't get in a

Re: SELinux on Squeeze?

2011-12-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, Laurentiu Pancescu lpance...@googlemail.com wrote: effective). I tested Exec-shield in Debian a few years ago, with and without SELinux, it makes a big difference: I just did a quick test on an i386 system with PAE running a 686 Squeeze kernel. SE Linux enforcing vs

Re: SELinux on Squeeze?

2011-12-31 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
On 12/31/11 12:04 , Holger Levsen wrote: On Freitag, 30. Dezember 2011, Russell Coker wrote: I can't imagine what the benefit would be in using official packages that I created and uploaded to Debian over using unofficial packages that I created and couldn't get in a Squeeze update Frankly,

Re: SELinux on Squeeze?

2011-12-31 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
On 12/31/11 13:00 , Russell Coker wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, Laurentiu Pancesculpance...@googlemail.com wrote: effective). I tested Exec-shield in Debian a few years ago, with and without SELinux, it makes a big difference: I just did a quick test on an i386 system with PAE running a 686

Re: SELinux on Squeeze?

2011-12-31 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 31/12/11 12:24, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: I think now only grsecurity is available in Debian, providing similar functionality (it does much more than exec-shield, but it's also more intrusive - not sure if it's even possible to use SELinux at the same time). I don't mean this in a bad

Re: SELinux on Squeeze?

2011-12-31 Thread Kees de Jong
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 18:19 +0100, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: On 31/12/11 12:24, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: I think now only grsecurity is available in Debian, providing similar functionality (it does much more than exec-shield, but it's also more intrusive - not sure if it's even

SELinux on Squeeze?

2011-12-30 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
Hello, I would like to harden a web server setup using SELinux. How good is the support for SELinux on Squeeze? Are the instructions on the Debian Wiki [1] up to date for Squeeze? I tried this last time on Lenny, and DHCP couldn't work back then due to SELinux not letting modprobe load

Re: SELinux on Squeeze?

2011-12-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Laurentiu Pancescu lpance...@googlemail.com wrote: I would like to harden a web server setup using SELinux. How good is the support for SELinux on Squeeze? Are the instructions on the Debian Wiki [1] up to date for Squeeze? I tried this last time on Lenny, and DHCP

Re: SELinux on Squeeze?

2011-12-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, Laurentiu Pancescu lpance...@googlemail.com wrote: is there any difference between i386 and amd64 as to how much protection SELinux is able to provide? Earlier, stuff like NX was only available on 64-bit processors; are there still such differences? There has never been