Aha, so Mandrake does still have some glitches and gotchas in the
paranoid setting. I found it to be a source of problems, even though it
does some handy stuff. I would recommend trying to go down one level of
security. Then run the InteractiveBastille, following the prompts. But
first you should read all of the README files for Bastille. Bastille
will take a paranoid approach by default shutting down services
removing/renaming/disabling certain "dangerous" programs, etc. There may
be one or two things you will want to change in that behavior, only you
know best what you want turned on or off. I'd be glad to step through it
with you if you'd like. I'll need to get the readme files for the
current Bastille for that though. I ran it originally on a Mandrake 7.x
install [still working quite well too].

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Gilliland [mailto:jegilliland@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 7:58 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: paraniod security
> 
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have an indication from MandrakeExpert that the 'paranoid' security 
> setting disables the mouse server and several other things.  The 
> MandrakeExpert recommends that I use InteractiveBastille to 
> chenge these 
> settings. Any ideas?  I hope I can handle 
> InteractiveBastille.  The machine 
> is only a workstation, so perhaps it won't be too bad.  ANy 
> advise would be 
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric Gilliland
> 
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