From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 20:15:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFFA16A4D0 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:15:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cowbert.2y.net (d46h180.public.uconn.edu [137.99.46.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4C3943D2D for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:15:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sirmoo@cowbert.net) Received: (qmail 27661 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Nov 2004 20:15:06 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:15:06 -0500 From: "Peter C. Lai" To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Message-ID: <20041110201506.GD283@cowbert.net> References: <20041110173511.GA2940@frontfree.net> <4192539C.6040403@elischer.org> <20041110183046.GA3518@frontfree.net> <20041110195259.GB74491@madman.celabo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041110195259.GB74491@madman.celabo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there any way to know if userland is patched? X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:15:24 -0000 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/