From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 20:01:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5737116A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:01:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.elvandar.org (redqueen.elvandar.org [217.148.169.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA19843D53 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:01:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D120295456; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:01:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.elvandar.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (redqueen.elvandar.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00860-14; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:01:12 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <419E510B.6020800@elvandar.org> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:01:15 +0100 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tillman Hodgson References: <419E4747.6070001@FreeBSD.org> <20041119193745.GD61766@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <20041119193745.GD61766@seekingfire.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at elvandar.org cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal regarding security chapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:01:15 -0000 Tillman Hodgson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:19:35PM +0100, Remko Lodder wrote: > >>my thoughts: >> >>Split security into security and firewall >>update book.sgml to have firewall below security >>(and before mac) and update other references as well. >> >>I would like to hear your opinions about this :) > > > "Firewall", by itself, doesn't feel like an intuitive place to split > topics to me (aside from the convenience of its size). However, I can > see a natural split between network security and host security. In that > scenario, MAC would become the largest portion of the host security > chapter. > > That still leaves security with 2 chapters, unfortunately. It only > addressed the page count balance between the two chapters. > > -T > > Well, i had a tiny little discussion on EFNet on our docs channel (#bsddocs) and there is another suggestion to make a section V for security and place all security related stuff in there like MAC,Firewalls,Secure system stuff (or whatever it should be named). I do not think that it's good to place Firewall and Mac into one chapter. But that's perhaps a bit of taste :) Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |remko@elvandar.org Reporter DSINet |remko@dsinet.org Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |remko@mostly-harmless.nl Founder Tienervaders |remko@tienervaders.org