From owner-freebsd-security Sun Sep 19 10:41:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from forced.attrition.org (attrition.org [198.77.217.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83480151B2; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:41:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobe@attrition.org) Received: from localhost (jobe@localhost) by forced.attrition.org (8.9.3/0.0.1.beta.nospam) with SMTP id KAA19304; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:44:53 -0600 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:44:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Jobe To: Brett Glass Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , Matthew Dillon , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Nik Clayton Subject: Re: Documentation of security features In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990919112902.0479f380@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > At 10:31 AM 9/19/99 -0600, Jobe wrote: > > >These files are 23k, are there really enough of them to take up 'Megs of > >Space'? > > If it's done for every shell command, it'll take up a LOT of room. Is it though? > > >People need to start posting more meaningful things, and stop > >inventing reasons to post to this mailing list. > > Documenting key security options is meaningful, IMHO. If nothing > else, we should add links for securelevel and similar things that > users are not finding. So enlighten me, what 'key security' options do the size of the documented man pages define? Is there some obscure denial of service attack related to the size of the man pages?!? And as for the links for securelevel and similar things, what the hell does this man page problem have to do with that? freebsd-security is hardly the place for these things. Your justfication for this post is completely unrelated and irrelevant to the post itself. Would you like to try for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change? --Jobe > --Brett > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message