Hi everyone, Just in the process of applying the secumod and harden_suse for my firewall. I have read the README files for secumod. I have decided to use the strict mode. I am bit confused in the order of applying the changes. Could sound silly but I do not want to fight latter on. Here is my action plan add a normal user with sudo rights install seccheck.rpm install harden_suse and run install secumod and configure secumod.rc.config reboot Anything I have to backup or pay attention so latter I will still be able to ssh and administer the box ? TIA -- Togan Muftuoglu
I do not know whether the problems have been fixed but secumod has some memory leaks. It may cause your machine to either become very slow or even hang. On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
Hi everyone,
Just in the process of applying the secumod and harden_suse for my firewall. I have read the README files for secumod. I have decided to use the strict mode. I am bit confused in the order of applying the changes. Could sound silly but I do not want to fight latter on. Here is my action plan
add a normal user with sudo rights install seccheck.rpm install harden_suse and run install secumod and configure secumod.rc.config reboot
Anything I have to backup or pay attention so latter I will still be able to ssh and administer the box ?
TIA
-- Togan Muftuoglu
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semat wrote:
I do not know whether the problems have been fixed but secumod has some memory leaks. It may cause your machine to either become very slow or even hang.
Well thanks for the info. Actually I found similar messages in the suse lists archieve (after a fight with the non functioning search engine and maintanace mode geocrawler, I decided to search the manually ) I could be wrong but probably it was again you mentioning. And soemone was complaining about kernel oops and looking the route etc. So I decided not to try it on a working machine until I play with it. -- Togan Muftuoglu
Actually I got this thing about memory leaks from Roman after my machine really behaved badly when I was using secumod. On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
semat wrote:
I do not know whether the problems have been fixed but secumod has some memory leaks. It may cause your machine to either become very slow or even hang.
Well thanks for the info. Actually I found similar messages in the suse lists archieve (after a fight with the non functioning search engine and maintanace mode geocrawler, I decided to search the manually ) I could be wrong but probably it was again you mentioning. And soemone was complaining about kernel oops and looking the route etc. So I decided not to try it on a working machine until I play with it.
-- Togan Muftuoglu
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Hi
Actually I got this thing about memory leaks from Roman after my machine really behaved badly when I was using secumod.
I had a very bad experience. I was trying secumod on some old hardware. Just to see what happened. I had a kernel oops and the motherboard and cpu broke under the strain. Somehow the hard drive survived. I have now built a new machine and I have removed secumod. Hopefully when the newer version comes along on the SuSE CDs it will be much better. Marc says that I can download a newer version but I prefer to use the RPMs from the CDs. SuSE harden would seem to be a brilliant piece of software. It puts some useful tools into the hands of the people who might not be experienced system administrators and gives them a chance to learn about the things that they should have done anyway. Thanks -- Richard
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