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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:11:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>, Ragnar Beer <rbeer@uni-goettingen.de>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>, <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: security settings documentation
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102141408560.30623-100000@eros.cs.brandeis.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010214110108.C73656@mollari.cthul.hu>

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Ah, I've wrote one too but managed to send it to the wrong address :)
Anyway, the table is much better, but I have a correction and a
suggestion:
a) Fascist mode is called fascist only in code, the menu calls it
"extereme", and it should be called this way in docs too.
b) indicate that Moderate is default, because it really is.

> > Somewhat terse, but here's a little "feature" matrix:
> >
> >                Fascist        High           Moderate       Low
> > inetd          NO             NO             YES            YES
> > sendmail       NO             YES            YES            YES
> > sshd           NO             YES            YES            YES
> > portmap        NO             NO             *              YES
> > nfs_server     NO             NO             **             ***
> > securelevel    YES (2)        YES (1)        NO             NO
> >
> > Any other configuration setting are, as near as I can tell, left unchanged.
> > For details on securelevel, see the init(8) man page.
> >
> > NOTES:
> > *   Portmap is enabled if the machine has been configured as either an NFS
> >     client or an NFS server earlier in the installation process.
> > **  If the machine has been configured as an NFS server, NFS will only run
> >     on a reserved port.
> > *** No changes are made to the NFS configuration.
>
> Good stuff - thanks!
>
> Doc-boyz and girlz, can we get this added somewhere?
>
> Kris
>



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