From owner-cvs-all Sun Nov 28 12:24:11 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622AC14F04; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:24:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA13454; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:24:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA42594; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:24:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:24:08 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dan Moschuk Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c src/sys/libkern arc4random.c src/sys/sys libkern.h Message-ID: <19991128122408.B42497@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <199911281751.JAA40710@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199911281751.JAA40710@freefall.freebsd.org>; from dan@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 09:51:09AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Introduce OpenBSD-like Random PIDs. Controlled by a sysctl knob > (kern.randompid), which is currently defaulted off. Why default to off? If we want to be serious about upping security a notch, then do it. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message