Re: [gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo?

2003-12-20 Thread Laurent Gatto
I never really tested this distribution, but if you are in a hurry, you may try OpenNa (http://www.openna.com). You can choose different type of typical server installation like web, ftp, ... and email server. You may also have a look on http://www.distrowatch.com/ for email server specific distri

Re: [gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo?

2003-12-19 Thread Andrew Gaffney
fisch wrote: I want to set up a very secure web/mail-server. Is it possible to set it up with gentoo or should i use an other distribution? I run a production web/mail/mysql server with Gentoo. I have setup a custom firewall. I have run nessus against the box from the box itself and it finds no se

Re: [gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo?

2003-12-19 Thread Phil Barnett
On Friday 19 December 2003 12:27 pm, fisch wrote: > I want to set up a very secure web/mail-server. Is it possible to set it > up with gentoo or should i use an other distribution? It's not ready yet, but we are building a mail server around Gentoo at: http://www.mailrefinery.org -- "The true

Re: [gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo?

2003-12-19 Thread SN
IL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 6:27 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo? > I want to set up a very secure web/mail-server. Is it possible to set it > up with gentoo or should i use an other distribution? > > bye > fisch > > -- > [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo?

2003-12-19 Thread Oliver Lange
Heitzso wrote: If you don't know linux security and the apps you'll need to study that, but that's a given whatever the distro. Yep. As far i can see, gentoo is a pretty slim distro, not filling up one's harddisk with tons of unwanted or unneeded stuff, so maintaining/hardening gentoo shouldn't be

Re: [gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo?

2003-12-19 Thread Heitzso
Gentoo can be made as secure and stable as any other distro. My fantasy is that one of the paid-for linux enterprise versions may setup a little easier than gentoo with a stock arrangement for the mail server rig (which is where you'll spend your time sorting out options), but that's just a fan

Re: [gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo?

2003-12-19 Thread Dennis Freise
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 18:27:46 +0100 (CET) "fisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to set up a very secure web/mail-server. Is it possible to set it > up with gentoo or should i use an other distribution? Please define "very secure". grsecurity ? SElinux ? -- Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo?

2003-12-19 Thread fisch
I want to set up a very secure web/mail-server. Is it possible to set it up with gentoo or should i use an other distribution? bye fisch -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kampagne.conne-island.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list