Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-30 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Garance A Drosihn on Thu, May 25, 2006 at 15:19:20 -0400 > This thread started because *Colin* set up a security > survey. He *already* realizes that the project needs to > do something so that more people are willing and able to > apply security fixes once the project comes up with > them.

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-25 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Garance A Drosihn on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 15:40:23 -0400 > >> The answer is: build host + jails for a testing environment... > >> This'll reduce your actual downtime. > >Did you just tell him to get another computer for each arch > >to have as a build machine??? > > > >Being a broke college s

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-23 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Roger Marquis on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:53:00 -0700 > Peter Jeremy wrote: > >One of the major problems with unattended/automatic updating is > >that it is hard to filter them. > It's hard to make a good case for automatic updates when manual > updates are so easy. So, here is a question:

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl

2005-10-12 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Timothy Smith on Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 17:39:46 +1000 > the make world documents mentioning backing up your system. it fails to > give any preffered methods or utilites for doing this. anyone got some > input on that. I find rdiff-backup to be very good indeed. It's in the port tree. --

Re: newbie with www user security problem

2005-08-11 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Ken Hawkins on Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:32:44 -0400 > The box is secure that much i have found out. the only problems have > been with this email spamming. nothing in the tmp dirs out of the > ordinary and no missing files running scripts etc. I have changed > everyone passwords on the b