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Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy



On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 12:18 +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> The current approach of having a kernel patch package seems to work well.
Phew... well.... there are many people running at >stable... and for
them it does not... as the package seems more or less orphaned.

Also,.. configuring something complex like grsec is probably nothing for
the end-user who, however, should have also an easy way to benefit from
it.


> It 
> removes the need for involvement of the kernel and security teams (presumably 
> security changes to the kernel will usually not require changes to the 
> grsecurity patch) and allows the users to easily build their own kernels.
Well, even though it means [much] work for them,... wouldn't that
involvement be just the good thing? Having some real experts, looking
after everything?!


> Spender suggested that people who want GRSecurity on Debian would be better 
> off using a .deb he provides and working on user-space hardening.
Well IMHO, at best, one should never need to rund anything from outside
the Debian archives ;)


Cheers,
Chris.

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