From owner-cvs-all Sun Mar 9 23:26:14 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 120FA37B401; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:26:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39A4243F85; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:26:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 10 Mar 2003 07:26:09 +0000 (GMT) To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: dwmalone@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/kbd kbd.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Mar 2003 17:29:00 MST." <20030309.172900.25160079.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Request-Do: Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:26:08 +0000 From: David Malone Message-ID: <200303100726.aa03674@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message: <200303092249.h29Mnma3080700@repoman.freebsd.org> > David Malone writes: > : No objections from: -audit about 6 moths ago > I seem to recall objecting to this in the past. Sorry - I never saw any followups to the post and I didn't spot any when I searched the archive. > If you have ddb > enabled, then this sysctl is useless.... This fact should at least be > documented. As should this sysctl... Most security knobs are useless if you have ddb enabeled and a key mapped to get into the debugger. Though, I guess it is more relivant here 'cos at least you should be able to use this to stop someone mapping that key. I'll document it as soon as people have figured out what the correct spot is, but I guess at least the kbdcontrol man page needs to mention this. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message