Re: Linux hardening

Pär Johansson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/26/05, Eduardo Tongson <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you really want to harden linux, by all means use PaX+Grsecurity+SSP.
> PaX is better and mature than Redhat's execshield.. or OpenBSD's stackgap/w^x
> But don't take my word for it <http://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/index.html>

There's a a hardened debian-based linux distribution called Adamantix
(http://www.adamantix.org) that you might want to check out, which
includes both PaX and SSP (though not grsecurity).

But do be careful, I've locked myself out of my own system a few times
using it :)

Regards,

-- 
Pär Johansson
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