Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:16:51 +0200 From: Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ProPolice/SSP in 7.0 Message-ID: <477BFF43.6060003@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071228200428.J6052@odysseus.silby.com> References: <477277FF.30504@googlemail.com> <86myrvhht9.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20071227195833.154b41ae@kan.dnsalias.net> <4774EB0F.90103@googlemail.com> <20071228200428.J6052@odysseus.silby.com>
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Thanks everyone for answering my questions so far. Mike Silbersack wrote: > It's too late to make that sort of change for FreeBSD 7.0, but I think > that's a good goal for FreeBSD 8.0. > > Here's what I think you could do: > > 1. Verify that enabling SSP works properly. Ok, I will certainly do that once 7.0 is out and I can run it for a while on our testing box. > 2. Convince Kris Kennaway to run his mysql benchmarks on a FreeBSD 8 > system both with and without SSP to verify that there is no > significant slowdown. Hmm, I guess Kris is not subscribed to -security? Maybe I'll have to post in -questions then... > 3. Get it enabled on FreeBSD 8 by default. > 4. Request that the change be made to FreeBSD 7.1 or 7.2 after it has > proven to not cause problems on FreeBSD 8. Ok, but what's the best way to go about that? Don't see that being documented in the handbook. Do you suggest a post on -questions or a send-pr or both?
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