Re: Linux Hardening

Matthew Lee Hinman <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:04:58 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Given that Bastille hasn't yet been built for RHEL5 and FC7 (hence why
it couldn't determine RedHat version), it might be difficult.

Looks like you need to install the Tk perl module in order to use the
graphical interface, you could also try to run it in text-mode by
running "bastille -c".

- Lee

* JP Vicente <[email protected]> [2007-10-11 17:03:40 -0400]:

>Below is the exact error that I got when I ran Bastille on FC7 and RHEL5.
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>[root@localhost ~]# InteractiveBastille
>ERROR:   Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
>ERROR:   Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
>ERROR:   Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
>NOTE:    Valid display found; defaulting to Tk (X) interface.
>ERROR:   Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
>NOTE:    Using Tk user interface module.
>ERROR:   Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
>NOTE:    Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration.
>ERROR:   Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
>ERROR:   Could not load the 'Tk.pm' interface module.This may be due to an
>         invalid $DISPLAY setting,or the module not being visible to Perl.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew Lee Hinman [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:21 PM
>To: JP Vicente
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Linux Hardening
>
>The tool is still being actively developed and supported. 3.09 is indeed the latest verion (found here: http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/index.html)
>Can you give a little bit more info about how this isn't working on later versions of Linux? (like an error message, etc)
>
>- Lee
>
>* [email protected] <[email protected]> [2007-10-11 12:36:39 -0000]:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>
>>I was looking for a Linux hardening tool. I found Bastille. The latest = version that I was able to find is 3.09. I cannot seem to get this = version to work on later versions of Linux (RHEL 5, FC 6,7) = distributions.
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>>Is this tool still being supported? Is there a similar tool out there?
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>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>JP
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