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+# This is an example for Security hardening an OE or Poky image
+
+
+Meta-hardening
+=============
+
+This layer provides examples for hardening OE/Yocto images.
+This layer does not provide 100% security protection.  This is only 
+a framework from which a user can build from and can possible contribute to.
+The goal here is to capture use cases and examples the community decided shares for
+everyones benefit.
+
+Building the meta-hardening layer
+-------------------------------
+In order to add hardening support to the poky/OE build this layer should be added
+to your projects bblayers.conf file.
+
+By default the hardening components are disabled.  This conforms to the
+Yocto Project compatible guideline that indicate that simply including a
+layer should not change the system behavior.
+
+In order to use the components in this layer to take affect the  'harden' keyword must
+set the DISTRO as in "DISTRO = harden".   This enables the "NO ROOT access" idea or framework.
+
+If one wants the a more complete example of a hardened image, one must also build the image:
+harden-image-minimal
+
+There are default example userid and passwards:
+These can be over written in your local.conf via:
+ROOT_DEFAULT_PASSWORD ?= "1SimplePw!"
+DEFAULT_ADMIN_ACCOUNT ?= "myadmin"
+
+example:
+local.conf
+DISTRO = "harden"
+
+The default user and password are: 
+User: "myadmin"
+Password: "1SimplePw!"
+
+bitbake {qemu machine} harden-image-minimal
+
+Dependencies
+============
+
+Branch: master
+
+This layer depends on:
+
+URI: git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky
+
+or this normal combo: 
+
+URI: git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/meta-oe
+
+URI: git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake
+
+plus:
+
+URI: git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
+layers: meta-oe
+
+
+Maintenance
+-----------
+
+Send pull requests, patches, comments or questions to yocto@yoctoproject.org
+
+When sending single patches, please using something like:
+'git send-email -1 --to yocto@yoctoproject.org --subject-prefix=meta-hardening][PATCH'
+
+These values can be set as defaults for this repository:
+
+$ git config sendemail.to yocto@yoctoproject.org
+$ git config format.subjectPrefix meta-hardening][PATCH
+
+Now you can just do 'git send-email origin/master' to send all local patches.
+
+Maintainers:  Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
+
+License
+=======
+
+All metadata is MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. Source code included
+in tree for individual recipes is under the LICENSE stated in each recipe
+(.bb file) unless otherwise stated.