Ubuntu Security Center?

[John Richard Moser]

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I've taken a quick look at Bastille and think some of the functionality
could be crafted into Ubuntu to create the "Ubuntu Linux Security
Center."  I've created a mock-up using glade-gnome-2 (glade-2), although
it's very ugly :)

The Mock-up includes tabs for PaX, GrSecurity, chroot() jail tightening
(a part of GrSecurity), and Stack Smash Protection (a la ProPolice and
LibSafe).  To avoid flames, I'm going to explicitly state at this time
that these tabs are both incomplete (why waste time filling them) and
- -theoretical-; Ubuntu as it stands does not use PaX, GrSecurity, or
ProPolice, though there has been some effort in that direction.

Again, this is based on a visual grep of Bastille.  I purposely didn't
include the one about hiding ifconfig and crap; normal users can just
compile their own copies and ship them to the machine right?  So much
for that. . .  (notably, they can't bring them setuid, or anything else
for that matter)

I've attached the 4k tar.bz2 of the glade project; sorry for the binary
attachment, but this is a mailing list and anything I send multiplies in
transfer, so 80k could easily become several hundred megs or so (400k
can become gigabytes on the LKML!).  I'm being nice to the server.

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