Hardened Linux From Scratch

Table of Contents

• Preface

  • Prerequisites
  • Typography
  • Structure

• I. Introduction

  • 1. Introduction

    • How to Build an HLFS System
    • What's new since the last release
    • Changelog
    • Resources
    • Help

  • 2. Technical Notes

    • Introduction
    • Host System Requirements
    • Toolchain Technical Notes
    • About Compiler Warnings
    • Stack Smashing Protector
    • Position Independent Executables
    • About SBUs
    • About the Test Suites

• II. Preparing for the Build

  • 3. Preparatives Steps

    • Creating a New Partition
    • Creating a File System on the Partition
    • Mounting the New Partition
    • About $HLFS
    • Creating the $HLFS/tools Directory
    • Adding the HLFS User
    • Setting Up the Environment

  • 4. Packages and Patches

    • Introduction
    • All Packages
    • Needed Patches

  • 5. Constructing a Temporary System

    • Introduction
    • Embryo Toolchain
    • Linux-2.6.20.4 API Headers
    • Glibc-2.5
    • Adjusting the Toolchain
    • Tcl-8.4.14
    • Expect-5.43.0
    • DejaGNU-1.4.4
    • Cocoon Toolchain
    • Ncurses-5.6
    • Bash-3.2
    • Tar-1.16.1
    • Bzip2-1.0.4
    • Coreutils-6.7
    • Diffutils-2.8.7
    • Findutils-4.2.30
    • Gawk-3.1.5
    • Gettext-0.16.1
    • Grep-2.5.1a
    • Gzip-1.3.12
    • M4-1.4.9
    • Make-3.81
    • Mktemp-1.5
    • Patch-2.5.9
    • Perl-5.8.8
    • Sed-4.1.5
    • Texinfo-4.8a
    • Bison-2.3
    • Flex-2.5.33
    • BC-1.06.95
    • Util-linux-2.12r
    • Stripping

• III. Building the HLFS System

  • 6. Installing Basic System Software

    • Introduction
    • Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems
    • Entering the Chroot Environment
    • Changing Ownership
    • Creating Directories
    • Creating Essential Symlinks
    • Creating the passwd, group, and log Files
    • Linux-2.6.20.4 API Headers
    • Man-pages-2.44
    • Glibc-2.5
    • Re-adjusting the Toolchain
    • Butterfly Toolchain
    • Zlib-1.2.3
    • OpenSSL-0.9.8e
    • Sed-4.1.5
    • E2fsprogs-1.39
    • Coreutils-6.7
    • Mktemp-1.5
    • Iana-Etc-2.10
    • Findutils-4.2.30
    • Gawk-3.1.5
    • Ncurses-5.6
    • Readline-5.2
    • Vim-7.0
    • M4-1.4.9
    • Bison-2.3
    • Less-394
    • Groff-1.19.2
    • Flex-2.5.33
    • Gettext-0.16.1
    • Inetutils-1.5
    • IPRoute2-2.6.20-070313
    • Perl-5.8.8
    • Texinfo-4.8a
    • Autoconf-2.61
    • Automake-1.9.6
    • Bash-3.2
    • File-4.20
    • Libtool-1.5.22
    • Bzip2-1.0.4
    • Diffutils-2.8.7
    • Kbd-1.12
    • Grep-2.5.1a
    • GRUB-0.97
    • Gzip-1.3.12
    • Hotplug-2004_09_23
    • Man-1.6c
    • Make-3.81
    • Module-Init-Tools-3.2.2
    • Patch-2.5.9
    • Procps-3.2.7
    • Psmisc-22.3
    • Shadow-4.0.18.1
    • Util-linux-2.12r
    • Sysklogd-1.4.1
    • Sysvinit-2.86
    • Tar-1.16.1
    • Udev-106
    • Paxctl-0.4
    • About Debugging Symbols
    • Stripping Again
    • Cleaning Up

  • 7. Making the HLFS System Bootable

    • Introduction
    • Set User/Group ID (suid) Programs
    • LFS-Bootscripts-3.2.1
    • Device and Module Handling on an HLFS System
    • Configuring the setclock Script
    • Configuring the Linux Console
    • Creating the /etc/inputrc File
    • The Bash Shell Startup Files
    • Configuring the localnet Script
    • Creating the /etc/hosts File
    • Configuring the network Script
    • Creating the /etc/fstab File
    • Linux-2.6.20.4
    • Making the HLFS System Bootable
    • Finished

• IV. Appendices

  • A. Acronyms and Terms
  • B. Acknowledgments

• Index