Bastille linux and Red Hat equivalent to YDL

[jcox]

You might get better responses in a higher up list.  At the moment I am
moving to debian for my servers, but this due only to the fact that I need a
newer version of php for freemed to work (http:www.freemed.org).  Anyhow if
you walk through the bastille linux for any system, you will have learned a
decent amount of security on your own, and you should be able to walk the
YDL box down the same path.

Josh

on 4/27/04 11:40 AM, Steven J. Norton at sjnorton@okno.com wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is the right list to post this question, but here goes:
> 
> I'm building my own web server with YDL 3.01 (on an old beige G3), and I'm
> very interested in securing the server as much as possible. Among the many
> other resources I've come across, one useful one is Bastille -- which is
> essentially a set of perl scripts that walks you through securing your
> system. Earlier versions of Bastille were labeled architecture-independent
> (*.noarch.*), but more recent ones are specific to i386 (and the RPMs just
> won't work).
> 
> Now, since Bastille is mainly just perl scripts, and it is very focused on
> Red Hat (and since YDL is Red Hat-based), I thought I might be able to use
> it anyway. I got the "source" tarball, which included an install script that
> installed the various pieces necessary. I got as far as being able to run
> the interactive program (InteractiveBastille), when it gave me an error
> about specifying an OS. The list it provided included many versions of Red
> Hat, among others.
> 
> Questions:
> 1) Is there a version of RH Linux that corresponds to YDL 3?
> 2) If I tell it I have some version of Red Hat, will this work?
> 3) Bastille's documentation also says that its graphical interface requires
> perl-Tk, but I haven't been able to find a ppc version of that. Is it
> perhaps rolled into more recent perl releases? Ditto perl-Curses for a
> command line interface.
> 4) Is this hopeless, or is it worth trying?
> 
> Any advice appreciated. Thanks!
> 
> Steve Norton
> 
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