From owner-freebsd-audit Sun Dec 10 4:45:47 2000 From owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 04:45:42 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from genius.tao.org.uk (genesis.tao.org.uk [194.242.131.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A51937B400; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 04:45:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by genius.tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id E3E319B05; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:51:43 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:51:43 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Robert Watson Cc: markm@freebsd.org, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solicitation for auditing process announcement Message-ID: <20001210125143.C84921@bsdi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:46:08PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:46:08PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > >indicating that audit@ is willing to do review-on-demand and should be > > > > What does 'review on demand' mean? > > It means that we're too laid back to have figured out rigorous, pro-active > re-auditing of the source tree, and instead we sit there and wait until > someone e-mails audit@ saying, ``I'm going to make the following stupid > changes to the following setuid binaries, could you take a look and OK > them before I drive-by commit them twenty minutes before the release?'' Mark Murray was talking about the possiblity of having an audit database to allow us to check what's been audited down to a granularity of a line of source code. How useful is this? Joe -- Josef Karthauser [joe@FreeBSD.org, joe@tao.org.uk] ......... FreeBSD: The power to change the world ........ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message