Re: [Bastille-linux-discuss] SLES10 issues

[Debora V. <dve...@us...>]

Is Jay the only person that is able to merge these patches and release a 
new snapshot?  Does anyone else have write access to the Bastille 
development tree?

Thanks,
debora

bas...@li... wrote on 10/31/2007 
02:07:28 PM:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> I would like to point you to this tracker item, where I have put the 
patches 
> from Debora together and included some own patches for a SLES10-aware 
version 
> of bastille-linux:
> 
> [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?
> func=detail&aid=1768787&group_id=403&atid=100403]
> 
> Greetz from Germany,
> Andy Schiller
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2007 schrieb Sorenson, David:
> > Update - I think I got it working!
> >
> > Turns out the IOLoader.pm when it does the prune is using a local
> > variable to handle the changing of the $first_question value. Since it
> > doesn't return that value in any way, the $first_question never 
changes
> > along the way, and so it tries to run a question that's been pruned,
> > sending the initializeGUI into the loop.
> >
> > I changed the calls to skipQuestion to skipQuestion($first_question,
> > $key) and then changed skipQuestion so that it would return the
> > current/updated $first_question.
> >
> > I'd send a patch for the three changes I made, but I'm not sure how 
best
> > to do that. If somebody wants to point me in the right direction, I'd 
be
> > happy to.
> >
> > -Dave Sorenson
> >  Sr. Web Administrator
> >  PGDS US One
> >  Jackson National Life Insurance
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: Sorenson, David
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:04 PM
> > To: 'bas...@li...'
> > Subject: SLES10 issues
> >
> >
> > Greetings!
> >
> > This is my first mailing, but I've used Bastille in the past, mainly 
on
> > SLES8/9 and Red Hat servers.
> >
> > We're setting up a SLES10 farm, and would like to use Bastille as part
> > of our server hardening routing, but I've had some issues getting it 
to
> > work.
> >
> > First, I grabbed a working branch copy of the source from CVS, applied
> > the patches 1-12 from this mailing list, and I couldn't get it to 
work.
> > With debug turned on, it appeared that only three items were making it
> > past the question pruning, and then it was getting into an infinite 
loop
> > (using the Tk interface).
> >
> > So, I did a little digging and poking, and came up with the following
> > change to Bastille/IOLoader.pm:
> >
> > Line 919 needed to be:
> >
> >         $supported_versions = 'SESLES8 SESLES9 SESLES10';
> >
> > This caused it to get much farther and error out in the tests, which
> > caused this change to Bastille/test_AccountSecurity.pm:
> >
> > Line 155 needed to be:
> >
> > $GLOBAL_TEST{'AccountSecurity'}{'passwdage'} = \&test_passwdage;
> >
> > At which point, it continued to run again, and went back to the 
infinite
> > loop. The question list seems to have quite a few items in it when I
> > turn debug on, but it's still hanging during the initializeGUI phase.
> >
> > I've attached a copy of the debug output, any help would be 
appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Dave Sorenson
> >  Sr. Web Administrator
> >  PGDS US One
> >  Jackson National Life Insurance
> 
> 
> 
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