Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:49:05 +0100 From: "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysctls in kern_shutdown: add twin tunables Message-ID: <99D3F3AD-27C1-45C4-B1FC-FFC8A63AF94D@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4CA4D496.6080604@icyb.net.ua> References: <4CA4D496.6080604@icyb.net.ua>
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On 30 Sep 2010, at 19:19, Andriy Gapon wrote: > http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/kern_shutdown-tunables.diff >=20 > The above patch adds twin tunables for the following (R/W) sysctls: > - debug.debugger_on_panic > - debug.trace_on_panic > - kern.sync_on_panic >=20 > This seems useful to me, but I am not sure if I am not missing = something > important. E.g. security-wise. > It seems that I am not paranoid enough often times. This change seems fine to me. Our trust model assumes that loader.conf = will be properly protected (or rather, that if you don't protect = loader.conf properly, you should expect unfortunate results). Robert=
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