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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:52:48 -0700
From:      Tom Brown <tomb@securify.com>
To:        "'freebsd-security@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   "Secure-FreeBSD" Idea
Message-ID:  <01BEE4A8.6FE3EEC0@beetroot.securify.com>

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HI,

Just come back from "websec" which was a bit dull, but I did get the =
feeling whilst fighting off the sleep that there is a really good =
opening for a quality secure O/S. =20

Now realistically all this would have to be is a really anal =
installation process, forcing the user to positively select services =
such as ftp,telnet, sendmail etc.  So if you don't select anything, you =
can't much.  It would also have carefully set UMASKS and probably come =
with some easy way to get the user to set-up tripwire and ipfw for =
example.

I suspect that most of the readers of this list spend a fair amount of =
time going through the same laborious process of tying down each server =
they built.  How about we pools this vast collection of procedures =
together and try to build some kind of a security release. We all know =
(well at least I hope we do!) what a solid O/S FreeBSD is, wouldn't this =
be the ideal opportunity, to push the OS further into the public eye?

Tom



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