From owner-freebsd-security Sat Dec 1 17: 6:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD9537B416; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 17:06:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05359; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:06:32 +1100 Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:06:45 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: To: John Baldwin Cc: Dave , Subject: RE: options USER_LDT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011202120451.R6917-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > On 01-Dec-01 Dave wrote: > > > > I really have no clue what the kernel option: > > options USER_LDT > > > > means, except this rugged definition I found in LINT (paraphrase): > > "Allow applications running in user space to manipulate the Local > > Descriptor Table (LDT)" > > > > Since it didn't come in the GENERIC (FBSD 4.4 REL), I'm assuming that > > someone, somewhere, thought it would be a good idea to have this disabled > > by default and maybe it was meant to be added in only by people who know > > what they are doing. > > No, it's enabled by default, not disabled by default. Er, not in RELENG_4. It can only be enabled by default if it doesn't exist, as in -current :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message