From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 18 0:24:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BFA14D63 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:24:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA50876; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:24:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199909180724.AAA50876@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Securing a system that's been rooted remotely In-Reply-To: <37E2C9B0.BD5846BB@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Sep 17, 1999 05:07:28 pm" To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [CC trimmed to -security] > Brett Glass wrote: > > > > By the way, why is it that "apropos securelevel" turns up nothing? > > Considering that it's documented in a non-intuitive place (the > > man page for init(8)), it ouught to be searchable. > > Because the NAME entry for init(8) doesn't mention "securelevel." I don't > see how you could write a meaningful entry and work securelevel into it. > Perhaps adding securelevel as an alternate name would help. > > What we really need is a good index to the man pages. Yea, what ever happend to ptx(1): gndrsh:root {1206}# man ptx No manual entry for ptx gndrsh:root {1207}# which ptx /usr/bin/ptx gndrsh:root {1208}# Hummm.. part of groff... probably info file documents, yep there it is. What would it take to get this thing building the Permuted Index again? cd /usr/share/man/man7; zcat *.gz | nroff -mandoc | col -b | ptx | more makes for some interesting reading :-). -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message