2008
12.05

Scary Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Recently I had an issue with CIFS included in the vanilla kernels, as an act of desperation I tried to build the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel (2.6.18-92.1.18.el5) on a Debian Etch system. The experience was unexpectedly harrowing, since the RHEL kernel simply would not compile straight away. Since I was custom building a kernel anyway, I configured it to be lean and mean, not including anything I didn’t need. After almost an hour of fiddling I got the damn thing to build, and apparently certain kernel options are required to be selected:

  • Tape driver support in the HP/Compaq CCISS driver needs to be enabled.
  • You need to enable IPSec ESP support for IPv4 and IPv6.
  • System Call Auditing needs to be enabled.
  • SELinux needs to be enabled
  • CIFS needs weak LANMAN authentication enabled.

The above problems are probably caused by rushed fixes, still it doesn’t really make me confident about running RHEL (or a part of it)…

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