Re: Kernel security advice

2005-02-17 Thread campbellm
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:51:13PM -0800, JM wrote: > Hello, > > * Besides grsecurity patch, pax etc...What other recommendations are there > to patch a kernel on a woody or sarge production server? I like using non-modular kernels to prevent LKMs > * Any experiences/opinions with the debian-har

Re: using sarge on production machines

2005-02-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:14:35AM +0100, kurt kuene wrote: > 1) > running unstable. > the updates are faster. security should be better then in testing. > but stability is far better in testing. > so the question is: > is it better to have a broken service or an insecure one? It is better to ha

Re: Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key 2005

2005-02-17 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Since no one has responded to this recently. The 2005 key is out there. I don't know when, but it is there. And it is also here: -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- mQGiBEH9wGgRBAC8D4O7cg/NDDvP2GT+yuX8duhK0DexhCy94TTNNs63YYMdXDJx iY5V3Dt79r1ZeMmyNEdWFnvq39/0h+qQwPLbsd5eroxk/XMeBsz/OQP7FJ+f1S

Kernel security advice

2005-02-17 Thread JM
Hello, * Besides grsecurity patch, pax etc...What other recommendations are there to patch a kernel on a woody or sarge production server? * Any experiences/opinions with the debian-hardened kernels? * Is it that terrible running X if access is not allowed from the network, only locally? Thanks

Re: using sarge on production machines

2005-02-17 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 18 Feb 2005, kurt kuene wrote: > * I have to use testing (sarge). * Have to? > All of my 3 webservers (apache php mysql java tomcat). on two other > webserver I run woody with some packages from sarge (apt-pining) and > the mail relay servers (spamassasin amavisd postfix clamav). IIRC, all of

using sarge on production machines

2005-02-17 Thread kurt kuene
hi * I have to use testing (sarge). * All of my 3 webservers (apache php mysql java tomcat). on two other webserver I run woody with some packages from sarge (apt-pining) and the mail relay servers (spamassasin amavisd postfix clamav). I run sarge because I need more recent packages and I do no