Re: new section for security related packages

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> I'm planning on packaging a few security related packages:
> 
>   cracker   - checks for weak passwords.
>   nologin   - logs login attempts on system accounts.
>   tiger     - checks system for known security problems.
>   satan     - checks network for known security problems.
> 
> First, is anyone working on packaging any of these.
> 
> Second, I would like to add a new section for security related
> packages.  Existing packages like tripwire would fall into this new
> section. 

What's wrong with "admin"? That's at the moment a rather small
section anyway (only 3184 kbytes on my mirror), and fits the
description nicely. Creating extra sections with (at the moment)
rather few packages in them doens't seem very usefull to me.


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joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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