From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 16 2:20:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BC9A37B40E for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 02:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 2235 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jul 2001 09:24:22 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:24:22 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Alex Cc: Bart Matthaei , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern.randompid Message-ID: <20010716122422.C1766@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Alex , Bart Matthaei , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010712171104.A38121@heresy.xs4nobody.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alex@bhni.net on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:08:05AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It does work; read my followup in the thread. kern.randompid is not a boolean on/off switch. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence claims to be an Epimenides paradox, but it is lying. On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:08:05AM -0400, Alex wrote: > No, it doesn't seem to work on 4.x at all for me. > > -Alex > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Bart Matthaei wrote: > > > Does it work on any other releases ? > > > > Regards, > > > > Bart > > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:07:44PM +0100, rich@rdrose.org wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Any reason why this happens (consistently) on a 4.3-RELEASE machine? > > > > > > shrek# sysctl -w kern.randompid=1 > > > kern.randompid: 0 -> 0 > > > > > > Given that I also have kern.randompid=1 in my /etc/sysctl.con, it should > > > already be 1.. but it isn't... > > > > > > rik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message