Re: Anyone interesting in building "immune" Linux machines?

[Tim Nelson]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach ha haha <hahaha_30k@yahoo.com> [2004.11.13.0127 +0100]:
> > Anyone has any interests in my idea?
>
> Use hardened Debian,

        Ok, I found this.

> define a configuration plan,

	I did a search for "debian configuration plan", and "debian FAI 
plan", and didn't find anything.  Is there documentation on this?

> configure cfengine,

	Luke Kanies was looking at a cfengine/Debian based system, but I 
don't know where he got to.

> and of you go. If you want an immune machine, you have to
> rely on high-quality packages and fast security updates that make
> minimal changes. Only Debian provides that.

        ...for free.  Redhat seems to do that if you pay.

	I'd recommend to hahaha that he consider looking at my Arpmats 
project: http://arpmats.sourceforge.net/

	It does the yum/up2date part.  It still clearly needs some work, 
but it's pretty close to a version that I'll use in production here.

        :)

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