Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:15:06 -0500 From: "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.net> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there any way to know if userland is patched? Message-ID: <20041110201506.GD283@cowbert.net> In-Reply-To: <20041110195259.GB74491@madman.celabo.org> References: <20041110173511.GA2940@frontfree.net> <4192539C.6040403@elischer.org> <20041110183046.GA3518@frontfree.net> <20041110195259.GB74491@madman.celabo.org>
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:52:59PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > In the end, what we want is for a user to type `uname -r' and to see > what patch level is running. Anything more complicated (checking RCS > Ids and such) just gets in the way, I think. That is how many other major unix suppliers do it (sun/solaris, and sgi/irix). -- Peter C. Lai University of Connecticut Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology Yale University School of Medicine SenseLab | Research Assistant http://cowbert.2y.net/
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