From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 14:49:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D8D16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:49:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fallback-mx1.atl.registeredsite.com (fallback-mx1.atl.registeredsite.com [64.224.219.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5958B43D41 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:49:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kevin_lyons@ofdengineering.com) Received: from mail9.atl.registeredsite.com (mail9.atl.registeredsite.com [64.224.219.83])i5UCioET013784 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:44:50 GMT Received: from imta06a2.registeredsite.com (imta06a2.registeredsite.com [64.225.255.15])i5UCiJZZ019019; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:44:19 GMT Received: from ofdengineering.com ([66.137.123.97]) by imta06a2.registeredsite.com with ESMTP <20040630124419.USRH4212.imta06a2.registeredsite.com@ofdengineering.com>; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:44:19 -0400 Message-ID: <40E2B59F.5040004@ofdengineering.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:44:15 -0500 From: Kevin Lyons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel M. Kurry" References: <40E1A6C0.2040406@ofdengineering.com> <6.1.0.6.1.20040629112919.03bcffc8@popserver.sfu.ca> <40E1C0F7.7050105@ofdengineering.com> <20040629220431.GH30204@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20040629220431.GH30204@over-yonder.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "TrustedBSD" addons X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:49:40 -0000 Daniel M. Kurry wrote: > Kevin Lyons said something like: > >>Some of them are not esoteric. So, following the current logic, I guess >>we'll have more "jails" for jail and more wrappers for wrapper :) ? >>Presumably FreeBSD r-eng runs some kind of audit on port source like >>that mentioned in "Building Secure Software". Maybe that audit process >>should be improved rather than trying to add more layers of paint to >>fill in the cracks (proverbial)? > > > Kevin, I believe this is the point in the thread where someone scolds > you for not posting patches (or offering more concrete suggestions). Is the last line not concrete-enough? You are right. If I don't like the system, I should re-write it myself. If somebody out there thinks that adding more layers of bugged security features is the wrong way to go, and beats me to it, then that is great. Otherwise, we'll be waiting a while for my patches :). > Just a heads up. > > Dan > > >>-- >>Kevin Lyons > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Kevin Lyons OFD Engineering, 950 Threadneedle Suite 250, Houston Texas 77079 Phone: 281-679-9060, ext. 118, E-mail: kevin_lyons@ofdengineering.com