Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-09 Thread Ray Leventhal
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Jim Wildman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Better, google for "tiny centos" and build a new box with the minimum on it. Hmmm, that looks exactly like what I'm looking for! I'm actually trying to find someone who has already done

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-07 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Erek Dyskant wrote: > > > Not if /home and /tmp and /var/tmp are mounted with noexec,nodev,nosuid,... > > Actually, wrong. > > /lib/ld-2.5.so ~/bin/wget Actually, wrong: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$bin/true ; echo $? 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$/lib64/ld-2.5.so bin/true; echo $? 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$s

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-07 Thread Erek Dyskant
> Not if /home and /tmp and /var/tmp are mounted with noexec,nodev,nosuid,... Actually, wrong. /lib/ld-2.5.so ~/bin/wget --Erek ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Jim Wildman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Better, google for "tiny centos" and build a new box with the minimum on it. Hmmm, that looks exactly like what I'm looking for! I'm actually trying to find someone who has already done the tough work and could give me some

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Luke S Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Removing network tools does not make it harder to break into the box, > however, it can make it harder to do something with it once you are in. That's the idea. > (also, [not] installing the programs just > means that if

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread Jim Wildman
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, My boss asked me to harden a CentOS box by removing "hacker" tools, such as nmap, tcpdump, nc (netcat), telnet, etc. I would like to know which list of packages would you remove from a base install. I would appreciate if someone could point m

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread Matt Shields
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Luke S Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Filipe Brandenburger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My boss asked me to harden a CentOS box by removing "hacker" tools, >> such as nmap, tcpdump, nc (netcat), telnet, etc. > > Removing network tools does not make it hard

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Filipe Brandenburger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My boss asked me to harden a CentOS box by removing "hacker" tools, > such as nmap, tcpdump, nc (netcat), telnet, etc. Removing network tools does not make it harder to break into the box, however, it can make it harder to do something with it

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread John R Pierce
Have a search on google for NSA Hardening RHEL5, you will find a very good document (pdf) which will help you start you're hardening. http://www.nsa.gov/snac/downloads_redhat.cfm?MenuID=scg10.3.1.1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Dennis McLeod wrote: They basically detect port scans and add a firewall rule to temporarily block that ip. Does anyone know what tool that is? Also disabling remote login as root should help. Russ Fail2ban, is what you are looking for, I think http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/in

RE: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread Dennis McLeod
They basically detect port > scans and add a firewall rule to temporarily block that ip. > Does anyone know what tool that is? > > Also disabling remote login as root should help. > > Russ Fail2ban, is what you are looking for, I think http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page D

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread Erik Bussink
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 19:03 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > My boss asked me to harden a CentOS box by removing "hacker" tools, > such as nmap, tcpdump, nc (netcat), telnet, etc. > > I would like to know which list of packages would you remove from a > base install. I would apprecia

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, My boss asked me to harden a CentOS box by removing "hacker" tools, such as nmap, tcpdump, nc (netcat), telnet, etc. I would like to know which list of packages would you remove from a base install. I would appreciate if someone could point me to a "standard" way

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread John R Pierce
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, My boss asked me to harden a CentOS box by removing "hacker" tools, such as nmap, tcpdump, nc (netcat), telnet, etc. I would like to know which list of packages would you remove from a base install. I would appreciate if someone could point me to a "standard" way