From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 12 16:34:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2AC106566C for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:34:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhellenthal@dataix.net) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3AF68FC0C for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:34:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl7 with SMTP id l7so3140416yen.13 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:34:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dataix.net; s=rsa; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to; bh=HiZsO7hh/CeSiHp76XRH5OrzwfBcqG5VQ7PV1RrTIJg=; b=A6yO4RVieHPhBnBtGMCbf18wFpMbTy7QF61/BIqNxus6KCVUsHPdgjX2PFTA4qQwe3 Fm5QIWsfiUD/hit+gXu8nAhVCG9mcrdgSzL2xhKKhuMu6Ry6Rzw30TodRkWq2ntHMSqh cXuZGYRhi9dZ6OZ5Ay0+wmocfdFamPqC3lhz4= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:x-gm-message-state; bh=HiZsO7hh/CeSiHp76XRH5OrzwfBcqG5VQ7PV1RrTIJg=; b=eyEE6PyZRcs3GY+RfPatc3Np25VXGetZUlKZaYEHhYfcg89FwTVv4aeDhwqFB/5pFr xN+/890tZ0YLQJd0Dt8HVukaI2L7T0bEOBNAk/dGfxq8edoctAM/chyne1Gdg9JCBokH FUiO5HP9gHQdc9HMRVqwjHPPH51I10RQGXNE2PqI3VOwusefg88Z/N0+NTEfziWsdazV Bsx53RdoUk4V5OeGGctGCGSXohmiCkkJQLMgqCPqU1dT0HF3wabWOP+U1lbWTM1LzrOd uep9NfsqOnvzputMF4KT53mHdLbymV3L6UofVFaK3pIzF8flNzOO8F7vgsXVi0L/wlmv I8eg== Received: by 10.42.100.203 with SMTP id b11mr1781275ico.38.1344789293642; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DataIX.net (adsl-99-181-144-179.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net. [99.181.144.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hg1sm4318380igc.12.2012.08.12.09.34.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DataIX.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by DataIX.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q7CGYodU089841 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:34:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhellenthal@DataIX.net) Received: (from jh@localhost) by DataIX.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q7CGYmEs089840; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:34:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhellenthal@DataIX.net) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:34:48 -0400 From: Jason Hellenthal To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Message-ID: <20120812163448.GA88577@DataIX.net> References: <0B65D7562F9DA04FAC3F15C508BF67136B90E09E1F@ESESSCMS0355.eemea.ericsson.se> <001701cd7648$c2520350$46f609f0$@com> <5024f984.45ca320a.1838.4155SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> <86pq6xs0zb.fsf@ds4.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <86pq6xs0zb.fsf@ds4.des.no> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkR4xrO4R0o5relBPTZZMnVsGPlOsWwtcn3NsVvQuQEbJS9JQukz7vyd/ukSSkKTBzZEcaX Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Roberto , "Simon L. B. Nielsen" Subject: Re: getting the running patch level X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:34:55 -0000 On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 09:05:44PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Simon L. B. Nielsen" writes: > > This has been discussed a number of time, but there are no nice and > > simple solution. > > There is a simple solution that, while not bulletproof, would work well > enough in most cases: have 'make installworld' create /etc/issue, which > would look like this: > > FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64/amd64 > Could I suggest... the same way that /etc/motd is already updated ? -- - (2^(N-1)) JJH48-ARIN