===== Installation =====

RSBAC installation is pretty straight forward. You do not need to reinstall a complete system, thus, upgrading your Linux system to RSBAC is an **easy** task.


  * Installing from packages is the easy way and supported for your Linux distribution.
  * Installing from source require a bit more knowledge and handwork, but it might offer you more flexibility (you could add your own additional patches).


The RSBAC access control framework, while giving a global system protection through mandatory privilege separation does not solve every security issue. It is advised to use a SSP and PIE aware distribution.

We suggest you to read about [[wp>Stack-smashing_protection]] (SSP) and [[wp>Position_independent_code]] (PIE) first, for more information about these technologies.

To this day, the only distribution using these features, that we are aware of is [[http://www.gentoo.org/hardened| Hardened Gentoo]].

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