Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:51:49 +0200 From: Nikolay Pavlov <qpadla@gmail.com> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ProPolice/SSP in 7.0 Message-ID: <200801031251.49378.qpadla@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <477BFF43.6060003@googlemail.com> References: <477277FF.30504@googlemail.com> <20071228200428.J6052@odysseus.silby.com> <477BFF43.6060003@googlemail.com>
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On Wednesday 02 January 2008 23:16:51 Gunther Mayer wrote: > Thanks everyone for answering my questions so far. > > Mike Silbersack wrote: > > It's too late to make that sort of change for FreeBSD 7.0, but I think > > that's a good goal for FreeBSD 8.0. > > > > Here's what I think you could do: > > > > 1. Verify that enabling SSP works properly. > > Ok, I will certainly do that once 7.0 is out and I can run it for a > while on our testing box. > > > 2. Convince Kris Kennaway to run his mysql benchmarks on a FreeBSD 8 > > system both with and without SSP to verify that there is no > > significant slowdown. > > Hmm, I guess Kris is not subscribed to -security? Maybe I'll have to > post in -questions then... But you can cc him directly. > > > 3. Get it enabled on FreeBSD 8 by default. > > 4. Request that the change be made to FreeBSD 7.1 or 7.2 after it has > > proven to not cause problems on FreeBSD 8. > > Ok, but what's the best way to go about that? Don't see that being > documented in the handbook. Do you suggest a post on -questions or a > send-pr or both? Since this change is related to whole the system the arch would be a better place. -- ====================================================================== - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. <<<----------------------------------- ======================================================================
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