Re: initial security

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Hi Neil,

It's difficult to know where to start. Sounds pretty barebones at the moment. The first thing you need to know is how your system is configured to start up. If you are using System V style boot scripts, or a more modern init system such as Upstart. You should probably start by having a look if you've got an /etc/inittab file. This is processed by the init process, and it will usually start up a number of getty (probably using agetty or mingetty) processes that should handle user login. I'm assuming that you have a getty and login program available on the system? If not you will want to look at building something like the util-linux package:

  https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/

That's just the start of course. These things usually have dependencies that cause long chains of package building when you are trying to build a system from scratch. Good fun though!

Adam

On 05/05/15 16:10, gtr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
hi
i've got a bare bones linux system up and running.
but zero security on it.
i dont want to change it since i've hacked the kernel and got a bunch  of stuf fon it taht i like
and for reasons that mystify me grub wont boot on it so i had to hack the boot loader.

the question is. i have no security onit apart form tcp wrappers and the firewall on the router.
which is all somewhat iffy.
  whats the best way to get the standard login/mingetty/pam security stuff installed.


ther just doesnt seem  to be much documentation around about this.

ta muchly
neil foster
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