Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:55:19 -0800 (PST) From: Linh Pham <question+freebsdpr@closedsrc.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: www/63031: www/features.sgml - add security as a feature of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040218185519.1A7D411451@q.closedsrc.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200402181900.i1IJ0W9b096438@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 63031 >Category: www >Synopsis: www/features.sgml - add security as a feature of FreeBSD >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-www >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 18 11:00:32 PST 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Linh Pham >Release: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD q.internal.closedsrc.org 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 #0: Sun Feb 15 16:07:21 PST 2004 question@q.internal.closedsrc.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Q i386 >Description: Add a section to features.sgml that tout the security features of FreeBSD, using the section from internet.sgml as the basis for the wording. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- www_features.sgml.diff begins here --- --- features.sgml.old Wed Feb 18 10:36:09 2004 +++ features.sgml Wed Feb 18 10:51:47 2004 @@ -82,9 +82,27 @@ kernel, allowing higher performance on multi-processor machines, support for Scheduler Activations, allowing parallelism in threaded programs, filesystem snapshots, fsck-free booting, network - optimizations such as zero-copy sockets and event-driven socket IO, ACPI support, and advanced security features such as Mandatory + optimizations such as zero-copy sockets and event-driven socket IO, + ACPI support, and advanced security features such as Mandatory Access Control.</p> + </blockquote> + + <hr align="left" noshade="noshade" with="100%"><font + color="#FF0000"><font size="+1">FreeBSD provides many security features + to protect networks and servers.</font></font> + + <blockquote> + <p>The FreeBSD developers are as concerned about security as they are + about performance and compatibility. FreeBSD includes kernel support + for stateful IP firewalling, as well as other services, such as + IP proxy gateways.</p> + + <p>FreeBSD also includes support for encryption software, secure + shells, Kerberos authentication, "virtual servers" created using + jails, chroot-ing services to restrict application access to the + file system, secure RPC facilities, and access lists for services + that support TCP wrappers.</p> </blockquote> &footer; --- www_features.sgml.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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