[Eug-lug] Gentoo hardened

Rob Hudson rob at euglug.net
Thu Aug 5 21:23:35 PDT 2004


On 20040805.1555, larry price said ...

> I would be curious to see the difference in performance between the
> hardened gentoo and a plain vanilla install that's been secured to
> adequate standards (no xinetd running wideopen, a standard firewall,
> smtpd basics etc.).

"no xinted running wide open" -- do you just mean turn off services you
don't use?  Or is xinetd inherently insecure?


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