Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 01:41:12 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security and FreeBSD, my overall perspective Message-ID: <39D98D98.B0627C08@softweyr.com> References: <2376.970339459@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200009302258.QAA13969@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote:
>
> : (b) Add a new field to the ports infrastructure which indicates
> : level of "trust" the project/security people have in that
> : port. E.g. instead of having one big knob rather off-puttingly
> : labelled 'FORBIDDEN', have a 'TRUST' or 'SECURITY_LEVEL' variable
> : which goes from 1 to 10. Then the ports infrastructure can, if
> : it wishes to, issue warnings of varying severity based on the
> : trust level.
>
> 1 to 10 is too many levels. But I'm not sure what the right number
> is, so let's assume it is N and move on.
N == 3 { 'green', 'yellow', 'red' }. If you're feeling like a telco, throw
'blue' in there somewhere, though nobody really seems to understand what
'blue' really means.
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