Bastille Unix (formerly Bastille Linux) aims to be the most comprehensive, flexible, and educational Security Hardening Program for Red Hat (Fedora Core, Enterprise Linux, and original Red Hat), SuSE, Gentoo, Mandrake, and Debian Linux, as well as HP-UX and Mac OS X. Virtually every task it performs is optional, providing immense flexibility. It educates the installing admin regarding the topic at hand before asking any question. The interactive nature allows the program to be more thorough when securing, while the educational component produces an admin who is less likely to compromise the increased security.
| Tags | Security Systems Administration education |
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| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases


Changes: This release adds Fedora Core 9 support.


Changes: This release added support for Fedora Core 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. mDNSResponder, Bluetooth, ISDN, and HPOJ questions were added.


Changes: This release corrects error messages in SuSE 9.3, such that Bastille no longer tries to add logging to syslog. Support for CentOS 3.x has been added.


Changes: Support for CentOS 4.0 was added. SuSE 9.3 is also supported, though unnecessary error messages will be displayed about syslog.conf, which isn't present on SuSE 9.3 systems, since they use syslog-ng.


Changes: This release fixes a bug in the use of the PAM password quality control module.
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I would like to see Slackware Linux supported...
Bastille's stable and still moving!
We're still developing Bastille -- it's got a lot of support right now and some very interested and dedicated programmers. Watch Freshmeat for exciting results in the next 6 months.
Re: 1.2.0 is released!
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> Installed it into stock rh7.2 and what
> i when i ran it in interactive mode it
> said, my distro aint supported and
> removing the rpm resulted this:
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> [root@bender linux]# rpm -e Bastille
> error: execution of %preun scriptlet
> from Bastille-1.2.0-1.1mdk failed, exit
> status 1
> [root@bender linux]#
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I can remove it successfully with this command: "rpm -e --noscripts Bastille".
However, after I've installed (in my RH7.2) the latest Bastille-1.3.0-1.0.i386.rpm from Bastille site, I got a lot of error messages when I run BastilleBackEnd... Anyone has idea?
Re: 1.2.0 is released!
> Sorry for not updating this sooner, but
> 1.2.0 is out!
Installed it into stock rh7.2 and what i when i ran it in interactive mode it said, my distro aint supported and removing the rpm resulted this:
[root@bender linux]# rpm -e Bastille
error: execution of %preun scriptlet from Bastille-1.2.0-1.1mdk failed, exit status 1
[root@bender linux]#
1.2.0 is released!
Sorry for not updating this sooner, but 1.2.0 is out!
Have fun! - JJB