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Old 11-03-2004, 02:34 PM   #1
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I am planning to install a new server and what to get an overview which distribution should I consider between the choices of Fedora Core 2 and Mandrake 10 as far as security goes. Also what apart from Bastille can I use to quickly lockdown a server?

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Old 11-04-2004, 07:01 PM   #2
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Can anyone help?
 
Old 11-04-2004, 10:26 PM   #3
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Take a look at the Linux Security references thread under the security basics section (post #2). There are a number of security checklists and guides that should give you general hardening info (like minimizing installed software, using tcp_wrappers, turning off un-needed daemons, etc). For added protection, look into hardening with grsecurity, LIDS, SELinux, RSBAC. And most importantly, don't forget to apply security patches!!!
 
Old 11-05-2004, 03:54 AM   #4
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Thanks Capt_Caveman.

I installed Bastille including the perl-curses rpm but keep experiencing the error below. why is that?

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/usr/bin/perl cannot find Perl module Tk

I am running Fedora Core 2.
 
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Please visit the Bastille-Linux homepage. It should (it did last time I visited) list the per distro tips on how to install Bastille and the necessary Perl modules.
 
  


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