FreeBSD Gets a New Security Officer 15
ve2asm writes "As sent to the freebsd-announce mailing list, Kris Kennaway is resigning as Security Officer. The core team has approved Jacques Vidrine as the new security officer.
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OT: Missing html tag (Score:1)
However, the story right above this one is displaying normaly.
BTW, don't moderate me as off topic, I'm just asking a question that would not fit anywhere else but here.
BlatantWhoring: A good "secure your BSD" link. (Score:2)
A clear simple guide to securing FreeBSD, including use of secure levels.
Two links off the homepage, so it's blatant whoring.
Dave
Re:BlatantWhoring: A good "secure your BSD" link. (Score:2, Interesting)
IMHO it would be a better idea to be able to select the features securelevels imply individually. That way, one could still use the securelevel settings in /etc/rc.conf by just making /etc/rc setting a group of individual "securesettings".
I mean, just because I happen to like rewriting my firewall rules doesn't mean I want anybody to be able to write to kmem, or to remove noschg!Re:BlatantWhoring: A good "secure your BSD" link. (Score:1, Interesting)
Of course, to actually use them in a non-trivial way you pretty much HAVE to roll your own distro from scratch.
Re:BlatantWhoring: A good "secure your BSD" link. (Score:1)
Re:BlatantWhoring: A good "secure your BSD" link. (Score:3, Interesting)
Nope. Every time the topic came up in freebsd-security, Kris used to lead the "securelevels are broken, don't use them" charge.
To be fair, they could be a useful security feature (although a more fine-grained control would of course be superior), but you'd have to do all sorts of stuff in order for that to happen. They are still quite useful as an anti-foot-shooting device, however.
hmm (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't know any actually managed to make it long enough to resign. Aren't they usually killed a few minutes after they beam down to a planet, or blown up by an exploding console?