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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:26:59 -0800
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Michael Lea <mlea@atomicbluebear.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>, Ragnar Beer <rbeer@uni-goettingen.de>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: security settings documentation 
Message-ID:  <90504.982218419@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Lea <mlea@atomicbluebear.org>  of "Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:24:33 CST." <20010214122432.A76375@core.atomicbluebear.org> 

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This looks like a really good start for at least a one-pager inside of
sysinstall which comes up when the user hits F1 at the appropriate
menu.  I'll see what I can turn it into.

- Jordan

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> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > Then write up some documentation for us and send it to doc@freebsd.org
> 
> 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.
> 
> - Mike
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