From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 8 19:11:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395E514CA8 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 19:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA78413; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:09:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:09:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Gustavo V G C Rios Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CS Project In-Reply-To: <37D7056D.97260A49@ddsecurity.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > Dear gentleman, > > i am a computer science student, and this semester i had to began my > project to get graduated. After looking for some interesting topics on > many sources, one rised up: > Privacity on Shared Environments. > > My ideia is to add system facilities to improve privacity for users on > shared environment like, for instance, FreeBSD. > > One clear example: > No user(but only that ones previous allowed to) should be able to see > other users process. This facility have to be done at kernel level, > (that's what i think). > > There is many more thing like this, that could improve system privacity. > This would be my cents to FreeBSD Project. > > So, what you think about this project? Is it cool enough to be done? Is > it waste of time? I would really like to have your feedback. Please, > report me something. > > Again: i would really enjoy hearing from you wizards what you have to > say! You have a little problem with our language, and it's making it difficult to tell if you know enough to start hacking. There are already lots of extra security measures on FreeBSD; if you want to research this, and perhaps come up with something extra, you'd certainly want to look at the "pam" facility (man pam), which would probably be where you'd want to do your work. From your words above, it *seems* like you're saying that facilities like this don't already exist; they do indeed. Adding more is possible, but you'd need to find a niche that's been overlooked. If you just started hacking without looking at what's already there, your chance of getting it accepted is virtually nil. We want to be willing to accept new code, but that code has to fit into the architecture of FreeBSD. ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@mat.net | communications topic, C programming, Unix and 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | carpentry. It's all in the design! Greenbelt, MD 20770 | picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD/i386 (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD/Alpha ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message