From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 18 22:55:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5BE14FE1 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:55:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com ([209.157.86.2]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with ESMTP id WAA28654; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA68663; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:54:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199909190554.WAA68663@apollo.backplane.com> To: Wes Peters Cc: Brett Glass , Greg Lewis , Evren Yurtesen , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Securing a system that's been rooted remotely References: <37E21A0A.1075F204@ispro.net.tr> <4.2.0.58.19990917092237.044f3f00@localhost> <37E2C9B0.BD5846BB@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org :Brett Glass wrote: :> :> By the way, why is it that "apropos securelevel" turns up nothing? :> Considering that it's documented in a non-intuitive place (the :> man page for init(8)), it ouught to be searchable. : :Because the NAME entry for init(8) doesn't mention "securelevel." I don't :see how you could write a meaningful entry and work securelevel into it. :Perhaps adding securelevel as an alternate name would help. : :What we really need is a good index to the man pages. : :-- : "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" : :Wes Peters Softweyr LLC :http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com I did a quick look at 'makewhatis' but did not see any specific way to be able to embed keywords in a manual page outside the NAME section. Certainly the manual reference 'SEE ALSO' section can be used to link multiple manual pages together if someone actually decides to write a 'securelevel' manual page, but barring that we are pretty much S.O.L. unless someone makes an addition to the (GNU) 'makewhatis'. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message