Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 20:38:06 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD security auditing project. Message-ID: <v04205520b4609c4108e0@[195.238.21.204]> In-Reply-To: <199911231905.VAA80946@gratis.grondar.za> References: <199911231905.VAA80946@gratis.grondar.za>
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At 9:05 PM +0200 1999/11/23, Mark Murray wrote: > I have been charged with the duty of ensuring that FreeBSD gets a > security audit that has the credibility of OpenBSD's. You're just bound-and-determined to get me permanently drooling, aren't you? ;-) Seriously, I do not envy you the job that you have been charged with, but I do wish you all the luck you could possibly receive, and more. Never in a million years did I think I would see the day when either FreeBSD and OpenBSD would converge, or that FreeBSD would start seriously working towards the same kind of serious security posture that, until now, OpenBSD has pretty much owned outright. I don't know how long it's going to take you folks to get there, but I'm beginning to wonder if maybe I can't hold off switching some machines to OpenBSD and to instead do my best to secure them under FreeBSD, and avoid the platform split that would otherwise result (and have to be healed later, once the security audit was complete on FreeBSD). Thanks so much! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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