From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 06:58:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D190F16A419 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:58:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gregoryd.freebsd@free.fr) Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr (smtp1-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8176F13C448 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:58:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gregoryd.freebsd@free.fr) Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2919F1AB2EB; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:58:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from imp8-g19.free.fr (imp8-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.39]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2A51AB2E1; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:58:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by imp8-g19.free.fr (Postfix, from userid 33) id C42263D99; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:58:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from 145.242.11.2 ([145.242.11.2]) by imp.free.fr (IMP) with HTTP for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:58:22 +0100 Message-ID: <1202367502.47aaac0e94f92@imp.free.fr> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:58:22 +0100 From: gregoryd.freebsd@free.fr To: John Ferrell References: <95762.4835.qm@web90608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <95762.4835.qm@web90608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.8 X-Originating-IP: 145.242.11.2 Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Linux Users article X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:58:25 -0000 Quoting John Ferrell : Hi John ! > Is this what the documentation project had in mind? I welcome any comments, > suggestions, changes, etc. When you write: "It is recommended that the root's default shell remain unchanged, though." Maybe it would be nice to have a reference to the handbook. Which I have perused, but couldn't find anything relevant. There is actually no such recommendation in the HB :-( The one I found was this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT pertaining to the "toor" account, which gives a nice explanation. (slightly OT: we might want to add such an explanation in the HB ?) I find the article pretty clear anyway :-) Maybe we should also mention the fact that there is no longer a "/proc" on procfs: FreeBSD uses "sysctl" instead ? (I know some GNU/Linux users who use /proc in their shells to grab info on the system, they might like to know they have to proceed differently). What do you (all) think ? cheers, gregory