---
name: "InteractiveBastille"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "bastille"
version: "1:2.1.1-19"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/InteractiveBastille"
---

# InteractiveBastille(8)

bastion a host using Bastille

## NAME

InteractiveBastille - bastion a host using Bastille

## SYNOPSIS

**InteractiveBastille**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents  **InteractiveBastille** briefly.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution

**InteractiveBastille** asks questions to the user in order to define what security measures must be implemented on the current system. The intention is to both educate administrators on security and harden the host's security. The configuration file generated by **InteractiveBastille** is then used by  **BastilleBackEnd** to make the changes to the local system if the administrator agrees to run the changes. In any case, the same configuration can be used to harden other (similar) hosts non-interactively using **AutomatedBastille**.

## OPTIONS

**InteractiveBastille** uses the following options:

- **-x**

  Use the Perl/Tk (X11) GUI  (In Debian GNU/Linux this requires that the **perl-tk** package  is installed)

- **-c**

  Use the Curses (non-X11) GUI (In Debian GNU/Linux this requires that the **libcurses-perl** package  is installed)

- **-T,**

  Test mode only, the questions in the database are tested but nothing is done.

- **--norequires**

  Ask all questions, even ones that do not apply.

- **-v**

  Verbose mode, actions are printed to the logs and to STDOUT.

- **-l**

  Log-only mode: no action is taken; only logs what changes would have been made.

- **-r PREFIX**

  All the filenames are prefixed with  **PREFIX** (/etc/whatever becomes /PREFIX/etc/whatever). This option  could be used to commit changes to NFS filesystems, or file systems with a different mount point than the current root (/) filesystem.

## FILES

*/etc/Bastille/config*

Configuration file which defines all the security measures selected by the administrator to be enabled.

*/var/log/Bastille/action-log*\
 */var/log/Bastille/error-log*

Logs that hold information of actions taken on the system.

## SEE ALSO

[**bastille**(7)](/bastille/7.md), [**AutomatedBastille**(8)](/AutomatedBastille/8.md), [**BastilleBackEnd**(8)](/BastilleBackEnd/8.md). [**RevertBastille**(8)](/RevertBastille/8.md), [**BastilleChooser**(8)](/BastilleChooser/8.md).\
 The programs have more documentation available at **/usr/share/doc/bastille** on Debian systems.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña \<jfs@computer.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used on other systems).

**Bastille** was primarily written by Jay Beale, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License