Re: [Nix-dev] Hardened NixOS

2013-11-23 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 11/19/2013 03:27 AM, phree...@yandex.ru wrote: Centralized building and security are often at odds. Say, certain grsecurity kernel features only make sense if you are running a unique, randomized build. Probably if you dig deep enough you'll find some features in gcc which introduce similar

Re: [Nix-dev] Hardened NixOS

2013-11-18 Thread Marc Weber
Securing nixos I guess we all want to be secure :) I'd also like you to start a wiki page talking about - what could be done - what you want to be done - how to verify that the goal has been achieved (if this does make sense) - what else could be done to have a secure system .. -

Re: [Nix-dev] Hardened NixOS

2013-11-18 Thread phreedom
On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 01:58:28 AM Ricardo M. Correia wrote: I am currently working on integrating grsecurity/PaX and making various software packages work under a grsec-enabled kernel (well, the packages I use): https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/1187 With those patches and a

Re: [Nix-dev] Hardened NixOS

2013-11-18 Thread Ricardo M. Correia
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote: Securing nixos I guess we all want to be secure :) I'd also like you to start a wiki page talking about - what could be done - what you want to be done - how to verify that the goal has been achieved (if this

Re: [Nix-dev] Hardened NixOS

2013-11-18 Thread Marc Weber
Yes, start the wiki page. Don't forgett that nixos has the nesting features for builds. Thus you can build i686,x86_64 and hardened/not hardened systems at the same time. Ther is not much which can go wrong other than that you have to download nix* stuff twice. Its on my todo list to improve