From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 10 12:18:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02935 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:18:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.tasam.com (cain.tasam.com [198.232.144.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02917 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cain@cain.tasam.com) Received: from localhost (cain@localhost) by cain.tasam.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA06638 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:17:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cain@cain.tasam.com) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:17:30 -0500 (EST) From: Cain To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Hardening In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was going to attempt to contribute until school started back up suddenly, but I can host a mailing list off of my server in an attempt to contribute something... I have found a few problems and have aptches for them, but I was waiting to find a few more as they aren't very high risk to post them anywhere.. On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, andrewr wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Enkhyl wrote: > > > Back when the popper buffer overflow bug sprang forth it was suggested > > that it might be a good idea to go through the OpenBSD change logs and > > evaluate security-related fixes for inclusion in FreeBSD. Is there anyone > > actively working on this? If there is a project organized around this, I'm > > willing to help out with the endeavor. Otherwise, I'm willing to embark on > > this endeavor and make a project out of it. > > This kind of died due to lack of interest. As I was told by jkh, if one > is interested enough in this, just start up a mailing list (not from > FreeBSD.org) and a team of workers and get to it. Soon, if all goes well, > it would be incorporated into the actual project. Good luck. > > Andrew > > > > > Comments? > > > > -- > > Christopher Nielsen > > Scient: The Art and Science of Electronic Business > > cnielsen@scient.com > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message