Re: Stripped OBSD (No, it is NOT what you think...)

[Nicholas Brawn <nick@rakurai.net>]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:55:49PM -0800, Lars Hansson wrote:

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> Maybe the OBSD installer could allow a little more
> granularity, like having the option to not install
> Apache and Bind and some other packages. Quite a few
> computers will never need Apache and even more will
> never need Bind.
> Why not do it the simple way and break them out into
> separate .tgz files? That way they would, I presume,
> work without modifying the existing installer? Or
> simply turn them into packages.
> 
> Lars Hansson
> 

This sounds like a really simple thing to script for post installations.
This is the approach that the Bastille-Linux (www.bastille-linux.org)
folks take towards "securing" default RedHat Linux systems.

So this could be done upon the first reboot of a system (or soon
thereafter), or alternatively, could be an additional option to the
installation program. We all have access to the source, if anyone is
motivated, lets see some patches. :-)

Cheers,
Nick

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