Re: md(4) (swap-base) disks not cleaned on creation

2012-11-07 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
e root inside the jail is definately not the same as the root outside the jail. All of us (I hope) have been educated with the wisdom that memory returned by malloc() and friends is safe to use which may raise the expectation (at least it did to me) that mdconfig'd memory follows the same pr

Re: md(4) (swap-base) disks not cleaned on creation

2012-11-06 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:27:04PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 07:46:58PM +0100, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When creating a swap based md(4) it may contain data which to me feels > > like a security leak: > >

md(4) (swap-base) disks not cleaned on creation

2012-11-06 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
.| 05c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 || * ^C # ls -l /dev/md0 crw-r- 1 root operator 0xc8 Nov 6 19:42 /dev/md0 # Although not world-readable, it just doesn't feel right to me. Any thoughts? With kind regards, Paul Schenk

Re: getting the running patch level

2012-08-20 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
ot for remote logins. The mechanism of /etc/rc.d/motd could of course be used for /etc/issue too but personally I'd rather see all version info, kernel and userland, reported in the same place: motd. My 2 cents. With kind regards, Paul Schenkeveld _

Re: Any ongoing effort to port /etc/rc.d/pf_boot, /etc/pf.boot.conf from NetBSD ?

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
needed to start up a certain app) and give the sysadmin access until all required apps are loaded and maybe even proven to work correctly. Regards, Paul Schenkeveld ___ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"