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Re: Global secure install requested flag(Re: Task harden.)



On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:19:02AM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote:
> Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > There is no recommends: ! foo
> 
> Maby this needs to be corrected to properly implement security.
> 
> > > - make each package as secure as possible by default (balanced against
> > >   usability).
> > Well I assume that this is already the case. That effort are put
> > on every package.
> 
> Why not have a global "SECURE_INSTALL_REQUESTED" flag for package 
> install scripts so they can modify their install to be secure if 
> asked for.  For instance a game that would normally have a daemon 
> started at each boot would instead reconfigure to only start the 
> daemon on demand from a local script.  The base network package
> could instead install a configuration file set that is heavily
> restrictive.

That shounds like a good idéa. Do people think that this should
be automaticly set by task-harden or should I just provide the
question?

Regards,

// Ola

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