From owner-freebsd-security Fri Apr 17 11:10:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16060 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:10:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15906; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:10:06 GMT (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA06694; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:09:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:09:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Matthew Hunt cc: dima@best.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel permissions In-Reply-To: <19980417005408.08278@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Matthew Hunt wrote: > My complaint, and I think the general complaint of people disagreeing > with you, is that you are not setting policy at your site, you are > setting policy on all FreeBSD boxes, as-shipped. You have to have some sort of baseline. Look at /etc/login.conf. If that doesn't set policy for the entire set of all FreeBSD boxes I don't know what does. Why you didn't fuss about that as much when it went in I'm not sure. I detect an 'information wants to be free' additude though. Maybe its just me... /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message