Re: Hardening Debian

You could also check out the packages 'harden' and 'bastille'. But I always deselect everything in the package selection menu during the Debian setup ( http://www.linuxjournal.com/ufiles/debian_netinstall.png ). And then I install some basic things like: 'module-assistant apt-listbugs preload update-inetd ntp deborphan ntpdate reportbug'

And after that I install what I want to use, that way you don't have to harden. Because you've installed only the things you need. You can always disable services with 'update-inetd' in case you installed some services you didn't want. Check out the man page here: http://man.he.net/man8/update-inetd

Grtz.
Kees

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:05, Michiel Klaver <michiel@klaver.it> wrote:

At 24-11-2010 00:48, Daniel Hood wrote:

Does anyone have a good checklist or script to harden a vanilla debian
box after installation?

Dan

Some quick notes for basic checks, not a full security guide:

http://klaver.it/linux/debian-security.txt

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