Re: Gentoo reintroduction of rsbac-sources

 Hi Anthony,

 its nice to hear such. :)

 On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:08:56 -0500, "Anthony G. Basile" 
 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> A long time ago, Gentoo used to provide RSBAC sources.  For those of 
> you
> unfamiliar with RSBAC = rules set based access control, it provides
> hardening similar to grsec.  See their web page at:
>
>    https://www.rsbac.org
>
> These patches were eventually removed because of waning activity, but
> recently Amon Ott and his team started working on RSBAC and there has
> been renewed interest within the community.  You can see their 
> activity
> on their repos:
>
>     http://git.rsbac.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
>
> So, I put the rsbac admin tool and kernel sources on my overlay and
> Issiah Hill started testing them.  I think we've progressed to the 
> point
> where we can reintroduce those kernel sources back into the gentoo 
> tree,
> so I did.
>
> The new packages are
>
> 1) sys-kernel/rsbac-sources = vanilla linux 3.1.5 + genpatches + 
> rsbac
> patches.  They do NOT at present contain the pax patches, but will in
> the next rev bump.
>
> 2) sys-apps/rsbac-admin = the admin tool for rsbac
>
> At this point, everything is experimental and I would not recommend 
> them
> for a production server.  But they are there now for testing and
> hopefully full stabilization.  I welcome feedback from both our users
> and the RSBAC team.