Re: initial security

Hi Neil,

It's difficult to know where to start. Sounds pretty barebones at the 
moment. The first thing you need to know is how your system is 
configured to start up. If you are using System V style boot scripts, or 
a more modern init system such as Upstart. You should probably start by 
having a look if you've got an /etc/inittab file. This is processed by 
the init process, and it will usually start up a number of getty 
(probably using agetty or mingetty) processes that should handle user 
login. I'm assuming that you have a getty and login program available on 
the system? If not you will want to look at building something like the 
util-linux package:

   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/

That's just the start of course. These things usually have dependencies 
that cause long chains of package building when you are trying to build 
a system from scratch. Good fun though!

Adam

On 05/05/15 16:10, [email protected] wrote:
> hi
> i've got a bare bones linux system up and running.
> but zero security on it.
> i dont want to change it since i've hacked the kernel and got a bunch  of stuf fon it taht i like
> and for reasons that mystify me grub wont boot on it so i had to hack the boot loader.
>
> the question is. i have no security onit apart form tcp wrappers and the firewall on the router.
> which is all somewhat iffy.
>   whats the best way to get the standard login/mingetty/pam security stuff installed.
>
>
> ther just doesnt seem  to be much documentation around about this.
>
> ta muchly
> neil foster
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