Re: [gentoo-hardened] Profile switch: convert to hardened

2010-10-12 Thread Philipp Riegger
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:43:26 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > If anyone can test all four possibilities for me, KERNEXEC=y/n and > UDEREF=y/n, for a *paravirt* guest and tell me how it goes, I would > appreciate it. I also started to test this on a CentOS 5 Dom0, Gentoo DomU. I must have trigg

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Profile switch: convert to hardened

2010-10-11 Thread Anthony G. Basile
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/11/2010 01:20 PM, Tom Hendrikx wrote: > On 06/10/10 01:43, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> On 10/05/2010 10:25 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: >>> and then build and install a PaX kernel. >> >> Be careful when installing a hardened kernel for a guest under

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Profile switch: convert to hardened

2010-10-11 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On 06/10/10 01:43, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 10/05/2010 10:25 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> and then build and install a PaX kernel. > > Be careful when installing a hardened kernel for a guest under xen. If > your guest is fully virtualized, you shouldn't have any problems. I've > run full v

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Profile switch: convert to hardened

2010-10-05 Thread Anthony G. Basile
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/2010 10:25 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > and then build and install a PaX kernel. Be careful when installing a hardened kernel for a guest under xen. If your guest is fully virtualized, you shouldn't have any problems. I've run full virt gues

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Profile switch: convert to hardened

2010-10-05 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On 05/10/10 16:25, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 10/4/2010 10:50 AM, Tom Hendrikx wrote: > >> This means that I will have only the changes triggered by the profile >> change later on. Are there particular issues that I need to take care >> of? And how to deal with the gcc change? I remember that ther

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Profile switch: convert to hardened

2010-10-05 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 10/4/2010 10:50 AM, Tom Hendrikx wrote: > This means that I will have only the changes triggered by the profile > change later on. Are there particular issues that I need to take care > of? And how to deal with the gcc change? I remember that there was some > kind of 'vanilla to hardened' guide

[gentoo-hardened] Profile switch: convert to hardened

2010-10-04 Thread Tom Hendrikx
Hi, Last week, I ordered a XEN-based VPS with some commercial party with a gentoo image. The image is (of course) created with the default profile for amd64 (default/linux/amd64/10.0). I want to convert the host to hardened (hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 profile), but in the process I noticed all kin