From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 9 17:57:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21970 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21957; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:57:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02559; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809100103.SAA02559@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Enkhyl cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Hardening In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Sep 1998 17:44:39 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 18:03:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Back when the popper buffer overflow bug sprang forth it was suggested > that it might be a good idea to go through the OpenBSD change logs and > evaluate security-related fixes for inclusion in FreeBSD. Is there anyone > actively working on this? If there is a project organized around this, I'm > willing to help out with the endeavor. Otherwise, I'm willing to embark on > this endeavor and make a project out of it. There are at least a couple of people doing this on a casual basis. Having a "process owner" would probably be an excellent idea. Go do it! -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message