[arch-general] Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

[Eric Bélanger]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Ananda Samaddar
<mr.a.samaddar at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:14:18 -0600
> Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Daenyth Blank
>>
>> Don't forget: everyone is interested in "starting discussions" or
>> "planning" or "drawing up plans", but when it comes to the actual work
>> well, then the original initiators get disinterested. It's as if the
>> problem is purely academic and all that's needed is a solution and
>> things will simply get implemented.
>
> I'm surmising that this has happened before.  My solution to the
> 'security issue' would be administrative rather than technical to allay
> the fears of one poster who didn't want Arch to get overly
> complicated.  I'm going to work on processes that a security team
> would need to follow when a security issue is disclosed.  I'll post
> that here when it's done for discussion and comments so others can
> contribute.  I've been mulling this over for a long time and I want to
> make my favourite distro even better.
>
> regards,
>
> Ananda Samaddar
>

Search the wiki for "security", you'll see what others have attempted to do.