Re: Resurrecting the Securing Debian Manual

2025-06-10 Thread debianmailinglists . hz5zm
I'm not an expert or developer, but I'll take a look at this when I've got a few minutes and see if there's anywhere I feel I can make a meaningful contribution, thanks for the link. I brought this up I believe on the forums quite a while back because when reading it the issue I ran into wasn't

Re: Resurrecting the Securing Debian Manual

2025-06-10 Thread debianmailinglists . hz5zm
I certainly think having an up to date "Securing Debian" document is a worthy endeavor, especially for server management. I've been using Debian to host my family home server for years now and have learned a lot in that time, so I actually started my own take on a re-write a while back that I wa

Securing Debian Manual, Out of Date?

2024-11-16 Thread debianmailinglists . hz5zm
To whom it may concern: I'm not sure if this is appropriate for the "security" team, or if there is a documentation team, but purely out of curiosity today I downloaded the "Securing Debian" manual available in both the "harden-doc" package, and on the Debian website at: https://www.debian.org

Re: dpkg MD5

2024-11-07 Thread debianmailinglists . hz5zm
I'm not a Debian developer, just a curious onlooker who hasn't seen all of these messages, so I could completely off base with my understanding of how things work. But, it was my understanding that the bundled MD5 inside a .deb file isn't there for security, it's just there to make sure the pack