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Date:      Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:06:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
To:        "Michael Schuster" <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>
Cc:        "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: replace uname -a informational string
Message-ID:  <58311.128.135.52.6.1445623599.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CADqw_g%2By=xpzvwk7k8oaC=%2Bdi_WJPBsMVbpgSasX2QchPD4OiQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, October 23, 2015 12:47 pm, Michael Schuster wrote:
> I seem to remember there's a trick using dtrace where you intercept the
> uname syscall/library call  .. that was on Solaris, though, don't know how
> that would map onto FreeBSD.

You needed some privileges for dtrace though... unlike uname. And you
needed binaries compiled appropriately to use dtrace.

Valeri

>
> regards
> Michael
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Michael B. Eichorn
> <ike@michaeleichorn.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 09:08 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
>> > For security purposes, I need to replace the informations given by
>> > "uname -a"
>> > to hode the kernel build system, name et cetera.
>>
>> I presume you intendend 'hide' here?
>>
>> If you want to scrub a binaries of _all_ information about the building
>> system this is a problem Debian is actively working on called
>> 'reproducible builds' but is not possible today.
>>
>> https://reproducible.debian.net
>>
>> If you want to hide the hostname, why not just build with a different
>> hostname set?
>>
>> >
>> > Is there a way to achieve this via setting some knobs in the process
>> of
>> > a
>> > buildkernel?
>> >
>> > Please CC me, I'm not subscriber of the list.
>> >
>> > Kind regards and thanks in advance,
>> >
>> > O. Hartmann
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Schuster
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University of Chicago
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