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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:52:48 -0700
From:      Tom Brown <tomb@securify.com>
To:        "'freebsd-security@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   "Secure-FreeBSD" Idea
Message-ID:  <01BEE4A8.6FE3EEC0@beetroot.securify.com>

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HI,

Just come back from "websec" which was a bit dull, but I did get the feeling whilst fighting off the sleep that there is a really good opening for a quality secure O/S.  

Now realistically all this would have to be is a really anal installation process, forcing the user to positively select services such as ftp,telnet, sendmail etc.  So if you don't select anything, you can't much.  It would also have carefully set UMASKS and probably come with some easy way to get the user to set-up tripwire and ipfw for example.

I suspect that most of the readers of this list spend a fair amount of time going through the same laborious process of tying down each server they built.  How about we pools this vast collection of procedures together and try to build some kind of a security release. We all know (well at least I hope we do!) what a solid O/S FreeBSD is, wouldn't this be the ideal opportunity, to push the OS further into the public eye?

Tom



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