Monday, March 25, 2024

Re: securelevel=2 and mount hardening

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, at 04:30, Dan wrote:
> Eventually, having the kernel possibility to customize the config path
> from /etc in eg /heroxyz
> could be helpful for a firewall, what do you think?

Everything you to complicate ongoing admin will hinder your maintenance and IMO this will make your overall security posture worse, not better

Unless, perhaps, you have a system to rebuild the machine every time you want to update software and/or config? Cattle, not pets? I do this in cloud environments but it's rather more effort elsewhere

John

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