Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 04:52:00 -0800 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.net> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there any way to know if userland is patched? Message-ID: <20041111125200.GH723@empiric.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20041110201506.GD283@cowbert.net> References: <20041110173511.GA2940@frontfree.net> <4192539C.6040403@elischer.org> <20041110183046.GA3518@frontfree.net> <20041110195259.GB74491@madman.celabo.org> <20041110201506.GD283@cowbert.net>
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:15:06PM -0500, Peter C. Lai wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:52:59PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > In the end, what we want is for a user to type `uname -r' and to see > > what patch level is running. Anything more complicated (checking RCS > > Ids and such) just gets in the way, I think. > > That is how many other major unix suppliers do it (sun/solaris, and sgi/irix). Actually no; Solaris can have many different system patches installed. See the showrev manpage, in particular the -p option. Or docs: http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5va?a=view In particular, the ability to manage base system patches under Solaris much like packages is very useful. BMS
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