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Bastille works on Red Hat Enterprise 3 and Fedora Core 1 and 2!

The Bastille Hardening System attempts to "harden" or "tighten" Unix operating systems. It currently supports the Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE and TurboLinux Linux distributions along with HP-UX and Mac OS X. We attempt to provide the most secure, yet usable, system possible. The project is run by Jon Lasser, Lead Coordinator and Jay Beale, Lead Developer, and involves a number of developers, beta-testers and concept-creators. Bastille Linux was developed with several major goals:

COMPREHENSIVENESS
Bastille Linux draws from every available major reputable source on Linux Security. The initial development integrated Jay Beale's existing O/S hardening experience for Solaris and Linux with most major points from the SANS' Securing Linux Step by Step, Kurt Seifried's Linux Administrator's Security Guide, and countless other sources.

INSTRUCTIVENESS
Bastille Linux has been designed to educate the installing administrator about the security issues involved in each of the script's tasks, thereby securing both the box and the administrator. Each step is optional and contains a description of the security issues involved.

COMMUNITY
Once the initial development was near complete, we brought the effort to the developers of the Bastille Discussion mailing list. Further, we began soliciting outside suggestions and testing. The script was GPL'd promptly and the Specification shared.

Bastille Linux