Debian has a program called Lintian that is used to search for common bugs in Debian packages. When it encounters a package with a shared object that requests an executable stack (as described in my previous post about executable stacks and shared objects [1]) it gives a warning such as the following: W: liblzo1: shlib-with-executable-stack […]
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I have just converted a Fedora Core 5 server to a CentOS 5 Xen Dom0 with Fedora Core 5 as a DomU. The process took a little longer than expected because I didn’t have console or network access to the DomU initially. It turned out that /etc/modprobe.conf was configured to have the tg3 device for […] After having read Brice Goglin’s post about what to expect in X for Lenny [1] the thing that seemed most exciting is the support for Multi-Pointer X [2]. This allows multiple keyboards and mouses with a separate keyboard focus for each. So you can have two people typing two different things on the one desktop. […] A question that is often asked is whether to use SE Linux or a chroot to restrict a program. In Unix chroot is a way of running a program with a restricted set of directories available (it used to be merely a sub-tree but with bind mounts it can be any arbitrary set of directory […] Recently someone asked on IRC whether they should use SE Linux on a web server machine (that is being used for no other purpose) and then went on to add “since the webserver is installed as root anyway“. If a machine is used to run a single non-root application then the potential benefits of using […] Faye and I have created Cafepress stores selling shirts and other things with SE Linux logos, here are the two designs: Play Machine SE Linux MLS There are shirts, coffee mugs, mouse-mats, and other things. The designs feature a graphical representation of MLS security and a variety of text about SE Linux. There […] |
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