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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dear CentOS Development Team,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I am interested in starting a new
SIG or merging with the ‘Hardening’ SIG, I didn’t find sufficient information
about the hardening SIG. I have been on the mailing list for some years and I
have noticed a number of concerns with regards to security, e.g. the default
sshd_config, gnome user list and more. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">My goal is to use the base and
modify the OS with these changes and make it available for the CentOS
community, I will mention this on the mailing list to get the community
feedback so that they can have an opportunity to contribute, and more
importantly get an OS that meets their needs, with regards to their security
concerns.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I’m
not too familiar with the CentOS build system, however I started to read up on
it and practice to get a feel on things. Some of the things that I will like to
change are as follow:</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">SSH:<br>disable root (uncomment 'PermitRootLogin' and change to no)<br>enable 'strictMode'<br>modify 'MaxAuthTries'<br>modify 'ClientAliveInterval'<br>modify 'ClientAliveCountMax'<br><br>Gnome:<br>disable Gnome user list<br><br>Console:<br>Remove reboot, halt poweroff from /etc/security/console.app<br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Looking forward for your response on
how can I proceed with this?</span></p>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Kind Regards<br>Earl Ramirez<br></div>
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