Hi all,

I've been thinking about a restricted profile for servers. It should be
minimal (no crap useflags) and as secure as possible by default.
What I think should be in there:

- no X and multimedia useflags by default (-esd -gnome -gtk -kde ...)
- put a dhcp client back in system. Not having that sucks, and we can
spare the 135kB installed.
- put gentoolkit in. equery, revdep-rebuild etc. are needed.
- having cron, atd, ... in system would be nice, do we want that?
- use as much from hardened profiles as we can. SSP is good :-)
(- use hardened-sources by default if possible, PaX etc. is very very
good )
- keep default CFLAGS simple - "-O2 -pipe" should be good enough
- no LDFLAGS unless there are no known bugs (e.g. "-O1" breaks prelink
in some cases)

What applications do you install on every system? What sshould be
provided for logging, monitoring, intrusion detection?
Is there anything that sucks in the default profiles?

Thanks for the feedback,

Patrick
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