From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 13 21:23: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD0F14DC5 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:23:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA22317; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:21:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990713204251.044f34f0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:43:39 -0600 To: Greg Black , Garrett Wollman From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Module magic Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990713211140.8502.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> References: <199907131631.MAA05152@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199907120945.TAA09669@cheops.anu.edu.au> <199907121736.NAA01917@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19990713010531.2897.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <199907131631.MAA05152@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Does XAccel for FreeBSD or BSDI still exist? I heard rumors that they'd dropped all of the BSDs and now only supported Linux. --Brett At 07:11 AM 7/14/99 +1000, Greg Black wrote: >Garrett Wollman writes: > > > > Are you saying that X does not work when securelevel >= 0 under > > > FreeBSD? > > > > That is correct. X requires direct access to I/O space, which is > > fundamentally incompatible with the notion of enhanced security. > >Can you explain how FreeBSD differs from BSDI in this? I've >been running various BSDI releases for years with XiG's XAccel >and securelevel set to 2 with no problems at all, and I had >hoped to do the same with FreeBSD (albeit with XFree86 rather >than XAccel). > >-- >Greg Black -- or > > > >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