Re: please test kernel-image-harden

[David Spreen <david@spreen.de>]

Hi there,
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:43:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Why aren't these patches in the standard kernel?

This are inofficial patches, like openwall and lids. They restrict 
the freedom of the user to enhance security. This shouldn't be the
standardkernel. But I thought it sounds nice to have a security enhanced kernel
in the distribution and talked to herbert. Herbert doesn't have the time
to maintain another image, so I do.

so long...

DAvid

P.S.: I made an ITP for all this packages btw.
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