User contributions for Thestinger
A user with 11,328 edits. Account created on 23 January 2010.
1 July 2022
- 01:4201:42, 1 July 2022 diff hist −243 Security →Memory: man-db compatibility with hardened_malloc was fixed in man-db upstream
24 May 2021
- 22:0522:05, 24 May 2021 diff hist +3 Arch Linux on a VPS →Providers that offer Arch Linux: fix typo
- 21:5021:50, 24 May 2021 diff hist +127 Arch Linux on a VPS another OVH Arch image annoyance to work around
- 21:4521:45, 24 May 2021 diff hist +12 m Arch Linux on a VPS →Providers that offer Arch Linux: clarify removing obsolete haveged
- 21:4521:45, 24 May 2021 diff hist −125 Arch Linux on a VPS →Providers that offer Arch Linux: OVH dropped Arch Linux images for dedicated servers but still has them for VPS. Also, added notes on fixing up some issues with their images.
7 May 2021
- 12:3512:35, 7 May 2021 diff hist +414 Termite Termite is dead and we (the Termite developers) recommend using Alacritty as a replacement
15 April 2021
- 15:5815:58, 15 April 2021 diff hist −21 m Man page →man -H: man-db isn't actually a GNU project: http://man-db.nongnu.org/ and GNU really aren't fans of man pages: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Man-Pages
19 June 2019
- 22:1022:10, 19 June 2019 diff hist −126 Security →Memory: it's not more complex than glibc malloc (compare the code) and it's more efficient in terms of lower memory usage for metadata and substantially lower fragmentation so clarify that part + remove redundant Firejail promotion
- 22:0622:06, 19 June 2019 diff hist +127 m Security →Hardened Malloc: Xorg does works fine per another user report and the reason man doesn't work is known
- 22:0322:03, 19 June 2019 diff hist −18 m Security →Hardened Malloc: build options, not environment variables (there's no runtime configuration)
25 February 2018
- 05:4205:42, 25 February 2018 diff hist −11 Classroom →Requested classes: grsecurity is no longer publicly available and it's not widely privately available so there's little hope of classes about it
- 05:4105:41, 25 February 2018 diff hist −150 DeveloperWiki:Roll Call remove self (retired)
18 November 2017
- 18:0618:06, 18 November 2017 diff hist −54 Package Maintainers →Some Past Trusted Users: drop email for self
- 18:0518:05, 18 November 2017 diff hist 0 Package Maintainers move self to past tus
- 01:4601:46, 18 November 2017 diff hist −122 ArchWiki:Administrators retiring from admin position
4 November 2017
- 23:0523:05, 4 November 2017 diff hist 0 m User:Thestinger Removed protection from "User:Thestinger" current
14 July 2017
- 07:2007:20, 14 July 2017 diff hist −263 User:Thestinger rm
11 July 2017
- 07:0207:02, 11 July 2017 diff hist +1,019 Security →32-bit processes (on an x86_64 kernel): add linux results
- 06:4806:48, 11 July 2017 diff hist −1 Security →32-bit processes (on the x86_64 kernel): the -> an
- 06:4706:47, 11 July 2017 diff hist +1,118 Security →Userspace ASLR comparison: add 32-bit process results for linux-hardened
31 May 2017
- 19:3419:34, 31 May 2017 diff hist −494 DeveloperWiki:Security →Replacing setuid with capabilities
- 19:3319:33, 31 May 2017 diff hist −4,886 DeveloperWiki:Security →Service Isolation: give up on this for now
- 17:3617:36, 31 May 2017 diff hist −484 Security →Kernel hardening: stop mentioning PaX and grsecurity to avoid trademark issues Tags: mobile edit mobile web edit
- 00:3000:30, 31 May 2017 diff hist 0 Security →Userspace ASLR comparison: update paxtest output again Tags: mobile edit mobile web edit
30 May 2017
- 11:5611:56, 30 May 2017 diff hist −92 Security →Userspace ASLR comparison: update linux-hardened paxtest ASLR output Tags: mobile edit mobile web edit
- 07:0607:06, 30 May 2017 diff hist −117 Security →Kernel self-protection / exploit mitigation: rw Tags: mobile edit mobile web edit
- 06:4406:44, 30 May 2017 diff hist +2,471 Security →Kernel self-protection / exploit mitigation: paxtest output Tags: mobile edit mobile web edit
7 May 2017
- 18:1018:10, 7 May 2017 diff hist −372 DeveloperWiki:Security →kernel hardening: give up on this
- 18:0918:09, 7 May 2017 diff hist −288 DeveloperWiki:Security →World-readable/writeable directories: fix
- 18:0818:08, 7 May 2017 diff hist −22 DeveloperWiki:Security →Compiler / linker hardening: update
- 18:0718:07, 7 May 2017 diff hist −3,428 DeveloperWiki:Security →grsecurity: gone
- 18:0718:07, 7 May 2017 diff hist −94 Security →Examples of broken functionality: using setcap like that is an extremely bad idea, you're better off disabling this feature
- 17:4317:43, 7 May 2017 diff hist +368 Kernel →Precompiled kernels: linux-hardened
- 17:3317:33, 7 May 2017 diff hist +18 User:Thestinger update
- 17:3117:31, 7 May 2017 diff hist +250 Security →Sandboxing applications: linux-hardened enables USER_NS, but with unprivileged usage disabled by default
- 17:2917:29, 7 May 2017 diff hist −23 Security →Restricting access to kernel logs: applies to other kernels too, not just core/linux
- 17:2817:28, 7 May 2017 diff hist +21 Security →Restricting access to kernel pointers in the proc filesystem: move note
- 17:2817:28, 7 May 2017 diff hist +87 Security →Restricting access to kernel logs: add a similar note
- 17:2717:27, 7 May 2017 diff hist +2 Security →Restricting access to kernel pointers in the proc filesystem: conform to ridiculous mediawiki syntax
- 17:2717:27, 7 May 2017 diff hist +73 Security →Restricting access to kernel pointers in the proc filesystem: default in linux-hardened
- 17:2517:25, 7 May 2017 diff hist +98 SELinux →Current status in Arch Linux: audit support
- 17:2517:25, 7 May 2017 diff hist +16 SELinux →Current status in Arch Linux: rw
- 17:2417:24, 7 May 2017 diff hist −11 SELinux →Current status in Arch Linux: linux-hardened enables SELinux support, so the kernel portion is provided in the official repositories now with more to come (if people step up to help)
- 17:1417:14, 7 May 2017 diff hist +4 Paxd redirect to SELinux since it's the closest and only fit for replacing this... current
- 17:1417:14, 7 May 2017 diff hist +22 PAX redirect to Security#Kernel hardening current
- 17:1317:13, 7 May 2017 diff hist +22 Pax redirect to Security#Kernel hardening current
- 17:1317:13, 7 May 2017 diff hist +8 RBAC redirect to Security#Mandatory access control current
- 17:1217:12, 7 May 2017 diff hist +15 RBAC redirect to Security#Kernel hardening
- 17:1217:12, 7 May 2017 diff hist +15 Linux-grsec redirect to Security#Kernel hardening current
- 17:1217:12, 7 May 2017 diff hist +15 Grsecurity Patchset redirect to Security#Kernel hardening current