Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-14 Thread Brian Davis
Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:36:45 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Tandy tarpman at gmail.com writes: Michael Crute wrote: USE=-* hardened pic ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl python readline You could omit pic here IIRC (on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-14 Thread Brian Davis
I think I've answered my own question: On my system, gzip is the only package that contains the pic USE flag. Looking at the ebuild, the pic USE flag is used to tell the system not to use the assembler code optimizations. Presumably, assembler code can't be relocated. Thanks, Brian Brian

[gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-13 Thread James
Ryan Tandy tarpman at gmail.com writes: Michael Crute wrote: USE=-* hardened pic ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl python readline Hello Ryan, glibc croaked during an upgrade/recompile and told me to add: 'nptl nptlonly' to make.conf. I did and the sytem completed a deep recompile

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-13 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:36:45 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Tandy tarpman at gmail.com writes: Michael Crute wrote: USE=-* hardened pic ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl python readline You could omit pic here IIRC (on a hardened profile) hardened includes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-13 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/13/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure I fully grasp what you mean by a 'hardened system'. If you mean running a hardened kernel with only necessary software installed, then yes, I run hardened kernels on most servers {dns, web, mail, firwalls} If running a hardened system

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:36, James wrote: The more minimized the global flags are, the more secure the server. Were I the only one who wasn't quite convinced by that statement? -- Bo Andresen pgp90yjwqq0Ib.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:36, James wrote: The more minimized the global flags are, the more secure the server. Were I the only one who wasn't quite convinced by that statement? No. Stefan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:01:18 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: The more minimized the global flags are, the more secure the server. Were I the only one who wasn't quite convinced by that statement? If that means leaving GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE out of USE, then it holds some truth ;-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 9/13/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:36, James wrote: The more minimized the global flags are, the more secure the server. Were I the only one who wasn't quite convinced by that statement? No... I think it is a little rush to state

[gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-13 Thread Harm Geerts
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 21:13, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 9/13/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:36, James wrote: The more minimized the global flags are, the more secure the server. Were I the only one who wasn't quite convinced by

[gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-13 Thread James
Brian Davis bridavis at comcast.net writes: Can one covert a non-hardended machine to use the hardended-profile, or do you have to start from scratch? Hello Brian, The short answer is YES. The correct answer is you have to read quite a lot (I'm in the middle of that) and decide which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-13 Thread bridavis
Thanks James! -- Original message -- From: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Davis comcast.net writes: Can one covert a non-hardended machine to use the hardended-profile, or do you have to start from scratch?Hello Brian, The short answer is YES. The correct

[gentoo-user] Re: Simplified apache2

2006-09-12 Thread James
Michael Crute mcrute at gmail.com writes: Those look a bit excessive for a minimalist machine. I would start over You probably want to set your machine up with a similar USE= string in make.conf USE=-* hardened pic ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl python readline net-www/apache