From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 29 11:50:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62EE737B82D for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02851; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 19:46:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00460; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:27:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200006291727.SAA00460@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: /etc/security -> /etc/periodic/security ? In-Reply-To: Message from James Howard of "Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:58:04 EDT." <200006291558.LAA26175@rac9.wam.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:27:06 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Will we be seeing a move in this direction towards a more configurable > security script? Is anyone planning it? > > I am porting the scripts to Linux and will hold off on security if > nothing is being planned or make the changes myself. I just do not want > to duplicate efforts. > > Also, I found a bug with a patch in conf/19567. Please apply :) I've changed /etc/security in -current by adding switches to the scripts command line and making those switches configurable in /etc/periodic.conf. If you want to take this further, I would think it best to keep it controllable from periodic.conf - but feel free to argue about specifics :-) I wouldn't mind if you wanted to pass any patches by me. > Jamie Cheers. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message