CIS Releases FreeBSD Security Benchmark

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CIS Releases FreeBSD Security Benchmark 44

Posted by michael on Tuesday August 17, 2004 @05:06PM from the keeping-honest-people-honest dept.

JohnnyDime writes "The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has released a security benchmark and auditing tool for FreeBSD versions 4.8 and later. This is a free download available from cisecurity.org. CIS is a non-profit, consensus driven organization that uses experts from the public, private, and academic sectors to develop security guidance for operating systems and applications."

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Heh (Score:5, Insightful)

by setagllib ( 753300 ) writes: on Tuesday August 17, 2004 @05:38PM (#9995600)

Not that it needs one ;)

But more proof that BSD is not dead. It gets support from the companies that know what they're doing.

Just you wait for 5.3-RELEASE!

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- Re:Heh (Score:5, Insightful)
  
  by sp0rk173 ( 609022 ) writes: on Wednesday August 18, 2004 @12:39AM (#9997885)
  
  And just YOU wait until the VFS system in DragonFly finishes it's top-to-bottom re-write! I have a feeling this new BSD isn't going to be something to sneeze at. I've been following the kernel@ mailing list, and it sounds damn awesome. It's going to be one hell of a beautiful little OS. Let's hope it runs as beautifully as it sounds on paper when all is coded and done.
  
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  - Re:Heh (Score:5, Interesting)
    
    by SillyNickName4me ( 760022 ) writes: <dotslash@bartsplace.net> on Wednesday August 18, 2004 @09:05AM (#10000164) Homepage
    
    That is nice... lets see when there is a result (have seen enough results from the people involved in Fragonfly, so that was not intended as a cynical statement, just as a huint that only what exists today can be used today)
    
    Anyway, unlike what some people believe, this kind of competition between different BSD distributions is a good thing, it allows people to go their own way with their ideas, and after a while all BSDs get a better solution (if the idea turned out to be better that is)
    
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  - Re:Heh (Score:1)
    
    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    I know that Dragonfly kernel is based off of FreeBSD 4.x , but is the userland going to reflect 4.x or 5.x? Things in 5.x are layed out in a near perfect Unix hieararchy IMHO, I'd hate to go back to the 4.x layout =/
- Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by ToasterTester ( 95180 ) writes: on Tuesday August 17, 2004 @07:19PM (#9996337)
  
  The same guy keeps cutting and pasting the same message over and over. Just the number of times he's posted it is proof FreeBSD is not dead.
  
  Linus, will you please stop posting this.
  
  FACT: Chuckie Daemon will not die!
  
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  - Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:5, Informative)
    
    by endx7 ( 706884 ) writes: on Tuesday August 17, 2004 @10:49PM (#9997373) Homepage Journal
    
    FACT: his name is not Chuck, or Chuckie or anything like that. If you must give him a name, call him Beastie.
    
    At least, I think it is a him.
    
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    - What's in a name? (Score:5, Funny)
      
      by JamesTRexx ( 675890 ) writes: on Wednesday August 18, 2004 @07:07AM (#9999371) Journal
      
      Aren't we supposed to call it our new overlord?
      
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    - Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:2)
      
      by okeby235 ( 99161 ) writes:
      
      I have a feeling he is referring to the "Charlie Root" that the root account uses as its full name.
  - Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:2, Funny)
    
    by agraupe ( 769778 ) writes:
    
    FACT: Chuckie Daemon will not die!
    
    # kill -9 `pidof chuckie`
    - - Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:1)
        
        by Anonymous Coward writes:
        
        killall doesn't work on all the BSD's. I am not positive on NetBSD, but I know that killall does not exist on OpenBSD.
        
        Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:2)
        
        by 680x0 ( 467210 ) writes:
        
        It's not on NetBSD... at least any of the versions I have:
        
        1.6/sparc
        
        1.6.2/sparc
        
        1.6.2/sparc64
        
        1.6.2/x86
- Re:Read carefully. (Score:3, Insightful)
  
  by SillyNickName4me ( 760022 ) writes:
  
  Hmm... offtopic? more like troll.. and for once a somewhat funny one ;)
- Re:Read carefully. (Score:1, Offtopic)
  
  by cant_get_a_good_nick ( 172131 ) writes:
  
  this ad looks like they cribbed from Stallman [stallman.org]
- Re:seriously (Score:2, Informative)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  Hmmm...
  
  Yahoo.com
  
  Fark.com
  
  Generally, clueful people.
- - - Re:seriously (Score:2, Funny)
      
      by Ezdaloth ( 675945 ) writes:
      
      Actually it's 4, i use FreeBSD too.
      - Re:seriously (Score:1)
        
        by NuclearDog ( 775495 ) writes:
        
        Quite all right. I run it on several machines (both desktop & server), so I more than make up for the one lost user.
        
        ND
  - - - Re:seriously (Score:3, Interesting)
        
        by torstenvl ( 769732 ) writes:
        
        Troll? WTF. I'm tired of Moderators with axes to grind.
        
        Debian's package management IS technologically superior to Mandrakes. Period. It's more flexible and more powerful. In Mandrake there is no way to 'purge' a package -- getting rid of the original package contents and configuration files that were generated therewith and essentially making your system as though that package were never there. There is also no way to set up different dependency levels, hence the complaints about Mandrake being 'bloated' w
BSD is NOT dying. HPUX is. (Score:5, Interesting)

by alphaque ( 51831 ) writes: <dinesh&alphaque,com> on Tuesday August 17, 2004 @10:10PM (#9997182) Homepage

hmm, oddly the HTML title and title bar both say "Benchmarks for HPUX". :)

see the link above at http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_freebsd.html [cisecurity.org]

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Heh (Score:5, Insightful)

Re:Heh (Score:5, Insightful)

Re:Heh (Score:5, Interesting)

Re:Heh (Score:1)

Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:5, Funny)

Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:5, Informative)

What's in a name? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:2)

Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:2, Funny)

Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:1)

Re:It is official -- Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy (Score:2)

Re:Read carefully. (Score:3, Insightful)

Re:Read carefully. (Score:1, Offtopic)

Re:seriously (Score:2, Informative)

Re:seriously (Score:2, Funny)

Re:seriously (Score:1)

Re:seriously (Score:3, Interesting)

BSD is NOT dying. HPUX is. (Score:5, Interesting)

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