From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 11 8:42:26 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9201137B41B; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:42:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBBGeHX33301; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:40:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:40:17 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Paul Richards , Mike Silbersack , John Baldwin , mini@haikugeek.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader version src/share/examp Message-ID: <20011211114017.S1956@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20011210201909.O92148@elvis.mu.org> <20011210221836.N1956@espresso.q9media.com> <616630000.1008044969@lobster.originative.co.uk> <20011211010336.Q1956@espresso.q9media.com> <20011211005211.V92148@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011211005211.V92148@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:52:11AM -0600 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein writes: > * Mike Barcroft [011211 00:05] wrote: > > Perhaps a secure loader would be useful, such that it doesn't allow > > interrupting. Similar things could be done with the pre-loader boot, > > but this write from loader feature seems so useful to me that I can't > > imagine why we would want to turn it off by default, particularly > > given the intrinsic insecurities of our current loader. > > Honestly I feel that the requirement to learn Forth as a prerequisite > to hacking a FreeBSD box this way makes it highly unlikely that one > would do so. :) I don't follow. Obviously the kiosk/secure version would be a compile-time tuneable, probably controlled by /etc/make.conf. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message