From owner-freebsd-security Sun Sep 19 22:30:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from dt014nb6.san.rr.com (dt014nb6.san.rr.com [24.30.129.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 360D814CC2 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt014nb6.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15064; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:48:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37E5C9B8.2AE491B4@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:44:24 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Documentation of security features References: <4.2.0.58.19990919112902.0479f380@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990919181430.045dd330@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > If administrators can't find documentation, they won't be able to secure > their systems easily -- and FreeBSD will gain an undeserved reputation for > being less secure. Also, they'll ask the same questions repeatedly on mailing > lists, etc. > > Any failure of the man system to guide users to the right answer -- or even > give them a hint -- is something that should most certainly be fixed. Hence > my comments, which I think are very much apropos. And I don't see anyone disagreeing with you. So, instead of talking about it, fix it, then send in the patches. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message