Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:51:12 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal regarding security chapter Message-ID: <20041122005112.GA73187@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <20041120030001.GI61766@seekingfire.com> References: <419E4747.6070001@FreeBSD.org> <419E510B.6020800@elvandar.org> <20041119203338.GF61766@seekingfire.com> <200411200335.56638.max@love2party.net> <20041120030001.GI61766@seekingfire.com>
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:00:01PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > V System Administration -> MAC -> Biba > V System Administration -> Firewalls -> PF > V System Administration -> Kerberos5 I think you mean 'Security' here. As in a new Security <part>, rather than two <parts> named 'System Administration'. > Basically putting all of the security topics on equal footing. This > highlights the importance of security, makes individual topics easier to > find (and less "deep" in level), Adding a new part and pushing the total chapter count to 30 is going to remove some of "easier to find" justification. This would also move content about SSH and MAC away from chapters about NIS, Unix accounts, other network services, etc. I like the original suggestion best: moving the firewall (and OpenSSH sections) out of security and into the Network Services <part>. Network Services is our newest part, and the System Admin part has twice as many chapters as the Network Services <part>. We should just continue the work that began this summer of moving the network bits out of the general System Administration part and into the Network Services part. That's what it was created for. I don't think adding another <part> for Security issues is a logical division point with just two candidate chapters at this point. Security topics are integral to both System Administration and Network Services, and we shouldn't remove security information from those parts to make a new one. All of these proposals seem to have two things in common : 1. The security chapter is too big. 2. The firewalls information should go into a separate chapter. Moving a chapter between parts is easy. So how about splitting out the firewall content into a new 'firewalls/chapter.sgml' file, and then temporarily adding this into the Network Services part. If it turns out that people do feel there is enough content for a whole new <part> dedicated to security, then it will just be a one line diff to move the firewalls chapter from the network <part> to a new security <part>. Murray
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