Re: [RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support

2012-06-05 Thread Ed Schouten
Hi Bryan, 2012/6/4 Bryan Drewery : > * Added utmp group Why call it utmp? FreeBSD 9+ does not do utmp. It does utmpx. Also, too many pieces of software already abuse the group `utmp'. Instead of doing utmp handling with it, it is used to cover all sorts of "this uses TTYs" scenarios. It wouldn't

Re: SuperPages utilization survey

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 06:49:18 -0500, Florian Smeets wrote: As far as i understand it does at least enable usage of pages up to 4MB, perhaps someone should teach mysql about the FreeBSD's limits? If you look at the output i sent, it certainly changes from using no superpage mappings at all to usi

Re: [RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support

2012-06-05 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 6/5/2012 9:06 AM, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > 2012/6/4 Bryan Drewery : >> * Added utmp group > > Why call it utmp? FreeBSD 9+ does not do utmp. It does utmpx. Also, > too many pieces of software already abuse the group `utmp'. Instead of > doing utmp handling with it, it is used to cove

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:51:50 -0500, Daniel O'Connor wrote: ISTR someone on the lists was talking about a device by http://i-odd.com which does what you want. I found http://renosite.com/ which is a home brew version of the same basic idea. Zalman ZM-VE200 and ZM-VE300 are also what you w

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-05 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:51:50 -0500, Daniel O'Connor > wrote: > > >ISTR someone on the lists was talking about a device by http://i-odd.com > >which does what you want. > >I found http://renosite.com/ which is a home brew version o

Re: [RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support

2012-06-05 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 08:42:04PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote: > I've written up a patch to add some privacy to last(1) while still > giving non-privileged users access to their own login history. > This is still a work in progress. I am reaching out to make sure my > approach is proper and to get

Re: [RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support

2012-06-05 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 6/5/2012 4:31 PM, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > To avoid this, the utmpx APIs could communicate with a privileged daemon > if the files are not readable. The daemon can check the identity of the > caller via getpeereid(3). (Unfortunately, even if getpeereid() is > bypassed and LOCAL_PEERCRED called d