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Source: Linux.com - Posted by Bill Keys   
Host Security System administrators need to secure their systems while avoiding locking them down so strictly that they become useless. Bastille is a software tool that eases the process of hardening a Linux system, giving you the choice of what to lock down and what not to, depending on your security requirements. I remember using Bastille a couple of times but after using it I changed many of the changes back to what it was before. Do you use Bastille every time you install a new OS? It sure does help with improving security but does it hurt usability to much for desktop user's to run?

Bastille is a set of Perl scripts that run as an interactive program, asking questions for each step of the hardening process. The scripts explain each step well, enabling you to understand what security measures will be introduced by any changes you make and why. Bastille can also optionally save your choice of options to a file for remote deployment to other machines.

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KevinWritten by Security on 2007-08-16 20:46:41
I feel a good firewall and SELinux enabled is a great starting point to make any ones computer more secure.
SELinuxWritten by John on 2007-08-17 07:58:12
Thats is a good point it would be a good idea to have Bastille include a way to set up selinux or another MAC
HardeningWritten by Joshua Gimer on 2007-08-17 10:29:32
From what I have seen with Bastille is that it is not customizable. If you have a system baseline that you created for a consistent security model, and you are not able to customize a tool that fits this baseline it is useless. I think that the tool is great for people that have no knowledge of how to harden a system, it gives them an easy wizard to navigate that does all the work for you. 
 
I personally use some hardening scripts that I created that fit our baseline. I then use Nessus with some custom nasl plugins to enforce the baseline. This lets me know who I need to contact, and help get to the baseline configuration.
hardeningWritten by bill on 2007-08-17 10:53:59
That is a good idea to have scripts to tighten the box. I have scripts that edits the /etc/hosts.allow and sets up the iptables which works good.  
 
Nessus looks interesting, I am going to look into custom plugins for Nessus. Thanks for sharing this tip.

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