On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 11:43, Mark Erbel O. Domingo wrote:
> 
> i agree with Jijo on this one. debian boxens are fairly secure, there is
> a securing debian howto, and there are debian packages that make
> hardening the system easier: eg, tripwire, aide, portsentry, snort,
> harden, etc...

I believe most distributions include those packages and securing the
Linux box related HOWTO.

> also worth a look: http://www.trusteddebian.org/

I once look at the system files, configurations and binaries in
MandrakeSecure MNF and only to find out that the usual placement of
those files are not "really" existing in their usual place.  What
Mandrake developers did was they have a series of Perl scripts and made
several "templates" to "fake" the placement and behavior of the system.

But I personally did not use it because I can't customize it and I
personally didn't understand what they did with the distro.  Also, it's
hard to maintain the system because the RPM packages for that distro is
different with the usual packages of Mandrake and it maybe hard to find
updates specific for MNF.

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