Savannah W-ITS

VirtualBox Security Tools – testing or installing Live CD images as virtual machines
I noted that this seems to be a popular approach for VMWare images and decided to try a few tools out using VirtualBox.   As with any such ’security solution’ you should carefully evaluate the tools that you allow (or the OS builds that you [...]

Some relatively new Linux documents that should be reviewed:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/security-guide/ – an introduction to system security for Linux systems.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-user-guide/ – the MISSING document! One of the challenges with SELINUX has always been a lack of adequate documentation.  SELINUX has been a pain since it was introduced – things ‘quit working’ and after some period of [...]

Could just be me…
Could just be luck of the draw…
But…
When I tried to install FC10 from the Live CD (downloaded on 12/30/2008) I had disk problems after the install completed.  I was testing with somewhat older hardware (~5 years, FC9 system that was working without issues.)  After what seemed to be a ‘normal’ install and [...]

I get vendor emails on a daily basis – I usually ignore the web links that they contain…

Today, I accepted the invitation to visit Sun’s Web site.  While there, I happened upon an Open Solaris VDI download (~2GB compressed image.)  After downloading just uncompress, import into your VDI disk image selections, create a new Open Solaris type virtual machine (VM) and