Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:09:11 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Pascal Hofstee <daeron@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates in latest build? Message-ID: <v04205526b3f9964ac159@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909061421050.6342-100000@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909061421050.6342-100000@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl>
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At 2:22 PM +0200 1999/9/6, Pascal Hofstee wrote: > As has been stated several times before and can also be read in the > UPDATING file (at least on 4.0-CURRENT) I read the /usr/src/UPDATING file, and noted a number of things had changed. Once I got make world finally done (after about three hours), I rebooted and started work on configuring my new kernel. I ran into some problems with a number of things that had changed in the format of kernel configs, but the biggest thing I've run across so far is the fact that Berkeley Packet Filtering (bpf) is now enabled by default, as opposed to disabled by default. This opens a *huge* security risk for anyone who doesn't reconfigure their kernel or doesn't fully comprehend the potential danger here. Are we really sure that the FreeBSD Inc. has sufficiently increased it's liability insurance to cover the potentially multi-million dollar lawsuits that might result from this change? Most of the rest of the stuff I think I've managed to figure out on my own, and although changes of this scale at this stage somewhat concern me, I figure I can work them out. And this is a particularly good machine for that, since it's going to be an internal support machine I can play with for a while. But this liability issue *really* concerns me. Jordan? David? Anybody got any semi-official statements on this issue? -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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