Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 22:28:35 +0100 From: markm@freebsd.org To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Administrativia: Documentation project slightly on hold (sorry!) Message-ID: <200304062128.h36LSZ4j028263@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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Hello security folks I (not so) recently asked for volunteers to the security documentation project. I got delightfully large number of volunteers! Thank you! Right now I have some personal (medical) issues to deal with, and I'll be out of town for the next 2 weeks. When I get back, we can move ahead at top speed. The project will have 3 parts. FAQ: This will cover any kind of basic security question. The intent is that the FAQ's should be the nitty-gritty quick-but-not-so-obvious tidbits that will make a sysadmins life easier in a collection. They should be the kind of thing that could be done as tip-of-the-day by something like fortune(6). HOWTOs: These would be longer documents where (perhaps) step-by-step setups are described. Eg, I want to write one where a FreeBSD Cluster-type NIS/Kerberos5 setup is described in a foolproof way. HANDBOOK: The handbook is in serious need of updating. For this list, only the security parts are of relevance. Folks can get on with it right away. Discussing the FAQ is specifically on-topic for this list (as long as it is focussed!). PLEASE PLEASE keep the technical focus. I don't want this list to degenerate into questions@ noise again. The others should be considered carefully, but (eg) if someone wrote a HOWTO and posted it here for review, it would be on-topic as long as it was a _security_ HOWTO. Markup issues are off-topic and irrelevant to this list. The choice of actual markup will be chosen later, but you can't go far wrong if you use DocBook or DocBook/XML. Whatever you use for your document, be prepared to modify the markup, so the safest may be plain ole ASCII. PS: When I get back, I'll also look at the issue of an open security-questions@ list. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
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