Re: Gentoo reintroduction of rsbac-sources

Hi Anthony!

On Saturday 07 January 2012 wrote Anthony G. Basile:
> 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.

Thank you very much for reanimating the RSBAC support in Gentoo! Even though 
RSBAC support had not been that visible for a while, support and development 
had always been there and RSBAC was in active use.

Last year we started to concentrate a bit more on RSBAC again, this resulted 
in a new release and more active git repositories. There is more to come this 
year, even new features have been planned and will be announced later.

Amon.
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