Bastille Linux releases v1.0.0 at SANS San Francisco Security Conference 99
Dec 14th, 05:40 UTC
The Bastille Linux development team is proud to announce the first
release of the Bastille Linux hardening script.
Announcing Bastille Linux 1.0.0
1999 December 15
The Bastille Linux development team is proud to announce the first
release of the Bastille Linux hardening script. The Bastille Hardening
script attempts to provide the most secure, yet functional, Redhat 6.0
system available. (Support for Red Hat 6.1 is forthcoming.) Bastille
Linux was designed with several major goals:
COMPREHENSIVENESS
Bastille Linux draws from every available major reputable source on
Linux Security. The initial development integrated Jay Beale's existing
hardening scripts for Solaris and Linux with most major points from the
SANS Securing Linux Step by Step, Kurt Seifried's Linux Administrator's
Security Guide, and several other sources.
INSTRUCTIVENESS
Bastille Linux has been designed to educate the installing administrator
about the security issues involved in each of the script's tasks. Each
step is optional and contains a description of the security issues
involved.
COMMUNITY
Once the initial development was near complete, we brought the effort
to the developers of the Bastille Discussion mailing list. Further,
we began soliciting outside suggestions and testing. The script was
GPL'd promptly and the Specification shared.
The Bastille Linux hardening script is a community consensus project: it
attempts to integrate existing "best practices" documents and the
shared knowledge of many administrators. The project needs constant
input from its user community (This means you!) in order to remain
current, as well as to fill in the gaps in our existing structure.
Bastille Linux is far from perfect, and your input is crucial to making
it better.
Bastille Linux 1.0.0 is available from the following locations:
http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/bastille-1.0.0.tar.gz
http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~jbeale1/bastille-1.0.0.tar.gz
Please check the MD5 checksums on the tarball to verify authenticity.
(Run `bastille-1.0.0.tar.gz` and compare the number with the checksum
below.) The following signature is the only valid 1.0.0 checksum:
b22a876f49b156ae08117744a00c783f bastille-1.0.0.tar.gz
CREDITS
Jon Lasser Lead Coordinator
Jay Beale Lead Developer
Peter Watkins Developer - Firewalling
Don Wilder Beta Tester
Mike Rash Developer - IDS
Sweth Chandramouli Developer - Automation
Peter Friedman Developer - API
Ben Woodard Infrastructure Liason
Don Groves Design Contributor
Kurt Seifried Gadfly
SPONSORS
The following groups have provided crucial support, technical and
otherwise, during the development of release 1.0. We thank them for
their gracious contributions to our project.
System Administrator and Network Security (SANS)
http://www.sans.org/
VA Linux Systems
http://www.valinux.com/
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
http://www.umbc.edu/
For general queries, please contact Jon Lasser (jon@lasser.org).
For technical questions, or to join the Bastille Linux development team,
please contact Jay Beale (jay@bastille-linux.org).
(Submitted by Martin Pitts of Linux Today)
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