Hi FreeBSD lovers :-) First af all I would like to thank the FreeBSD developers for making such a great system! Half a year ago, I had to choose an OS for my server and the first decision was between Windows and Unix, ofcourse it didn't take much research to determine that Unix were the better choice. But now I had to choose from Linux, Solaris and one of the BSD's, and one of the BSD's is was. After a little reseach I had nerroed it down to OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and FreeBSD won me over :-) But enough of this, on to the 2 requests: 1. Is there a way to hide a user from other users? Fx programs like w, who, users, netstat, top, ps all show what other users are doing. It would fx be a good idea to hide root or the admin's activities from other users. If you are trying to catch a cracker, then you know that he/she if not stupid enough to login while other users (especial root) are online. But perhaps this feuture to hide a user already exists?
2. After having read "Operating systems - Internals and Design Principles" by William Stallings I have a few questions. He writes, among other things, about VM, process and tread design, and compares Unix SVR4, Solaris and Windows NT. Sometimes he more or less say, that what fx Solaris have done is the way of the future and other times the unix way was the bedst. I don't want to discuss why FreeBSD have designed the kernel as they have, but I know that sometimes when you work very closely with something, you forget to "look up". I mean, does FreeBSD analyse the Linux and Solaris kernel, maybe adobt some of the good thing they have made? I don't expect FreeBSD to rewrite the kernel, but to learn from Solaris and Linux. If FreeBSD allready do this, then I am sorry for having troubled you with this mail!!! Best regards Rafter ps: 1. I hope that in the future FreeBSD will remain a servers only OS. Meaning that I hope the developers don't spend to much time making games, grafical programs and stuff like gnome/kde/x11. 2. I hope that in the furture the FreeBSD developers will rewrite the system in C++. 3. I hope for even more focuse on security. 4. I will do my part and help FreeBSD the bedst I can. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
