From owner-freebsd-security Fri Sep 22 11:27:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B9837B422 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13cXXr-0008PY-00; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 20:27:35 +0200 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 20:27:35 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Brett Glass Cc: Wes Peters , security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall DOESN'T ASK, dangerous defaults! (Was: Re: wats so special about freeBSD?) Message-ID: <20000922202735.B32175@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <99016.969437392@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <99016.969437392@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20000920125405.D22272@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000921113652.053d4960@localhost> <20000921210521.A17973@mithrandr.moria.org> <39CA8E45.7DA45048@softweyr.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000921182152.046d6ee0@localhost> <20000922103446.A25222@mithrandr.moria.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000922121247.00c7d7f0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000922121247.00c7d7f0@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 12:17:11PM -0600 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri 2000-09-22 (12:17), Brett Glass wrote: > My reason for not contributing code is not that I can't (though I am > really an assembly language specialist and avoid C like the plague). > It's territoriality. Whenever I've tried, the "owner" of that bit of > code or that section of the OS has acted as if I have invaded his > territory. So, I've made suggestions and hoped that the people who > want to maintain those parts would follow through. It's quite simple. Submit a PR. If the maintainer of that area doesn't address it in sufficient time, reply to the PR stating so, and send mail to an appropriate mailing list. Last time you submitted PRs, they were done (except the man page one, but that's quite complex). Just try again. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message