Date: 21 Sep 2000 09:42:28 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, clefevre@citeweb.net, Akbar <Akbar@Aptitude.com.sg>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wats so special about freeBSD? Message-ID: <xzpk8c6faxn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Crist J . Clark"'s message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:54:05 -0700" References: <cjclark@reflexnet.net> <99016.969437392@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20000920125405.D22272@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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"Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> writes: > From a review of /etc/defaults/rc.conf, 5.0-CURRENT has turned off the > three biggies that I didn't like the default YES, > > inetd_enable="NO" > sendmail_enable="NO" > portmap_enable="NO" > > But I assume /stand/sysinstall will ask if these should be turned on. > This is good. Actually, IIRC, sysinstall turns them on by default for POLA reasons. But at least now you can see from your rc.conf that they're on. > And if one were to get really paraniod (and it is my job to be these > days), /proc should not be put in a sysinstall generated fstab without > warning the user due to its checkered security history /proc should be fine now. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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