Re: LSM or GRSecurity

["Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com>]

Thanks for the info on this.

I'll try out GRSec 1.9.2. Are there any Debian packages, besides the
actual patch itself, that i need to download (or perhaps would be
benefitial in supplementing GRSec, even if not required)?

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Coker" <russell@coker.com.au>
To: "Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com>; <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: LSM or GRSecurity


> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:14, Jason Lim wrote:
> > So you just applied the kernel patches (they work on 2.4.17, right?),
and
> > that should be it? Blah... I know I should be installing the package
and
>
> Yes, it just works!
>
> I started with Linux when patching your own kernel was expected, and
> something you did regularly.  So I've never had any aversion to patching
> kernels, running beta kernels on servers, etc.  I can understand how you
> might get nervous about it though.
>
> One thing to note with grsecurity, lsm, and probably many other kernel
> patches is that the feature set that's available depends on the version
of
> the kernel you use.  The current grsecurity kernel-patch package has two
> versions of the patch, 1.9.2 for kernels >= 2.4.16 and 1.8.9 for kernels
<=
> 2.4.14.  I am not sure which version you'll get if you apply it to
2.4.15.
>
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