Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:55:19 -0800 (PST) From: Linh Pham <question+freebsdpr@closedsrc.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: www/63031: www/features.sgml - add security as a feature of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040218185519.1A7D411451@q.closedsrc.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200402181900.i1IJ0W9b096438@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 63031
>Category: www
>Synopsis: www/features.sgml - add security as a feature of FreeBSD
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-www
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 18 11:00:32 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Linh Pham
>Release: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD q.internal.closedsrc.org 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 #0: Sun Feb 15 16:07:21 PST 2004 question@q.internal.closedsrc.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Q i386
>Description:
Add a section to features.sgml that tout the security features of FreeBSD,
using the section from internet.sgml as the basis for the wording.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- www_features.sgml.diff begins here ---
--- features.sgml.old Wed Feb 18 10:36:09 2004
+++ features.sgml Wed Feb 18 10:51:47 2004
@@ -82,9 +82,27 @@
kernel, allowing higher performance on multi-processor machines,
support for Scheduler Activations, allowing parallelism in threaded
programs, filesystem snapshots, fsck-free booting, network
- optimizations such as zero-copy sockets and event-driven socket IO, ACPI support, and advanced security features such as Mandatory
+ optimizations such as zero-copy sockets and event-driven socket IO,
+ ACPI support, and advanced security features such as Mandatory
Access Control.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ <hr align="left" noshade="noshade" with="100%"><font
+ color="#FF0000"><font size="+1">FreeBSD provides many security features
+ to protect networks and servers.</font></font>
+
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>The FreeBSD developers are as concerned about security as they are
+ about performance and compatibility. FreeBSD includes kernel support
+ for stateful IP firewalling, as well as other services, such as
+ IP proxy gateways.</p>
+
+ <p>FreeBSD also includes support for encryption software, secure
+ shells, Kerberos authentication, "virtual servers" created using
+ jails, chroot-ing services to restrict application access to the
+ file system, secure RPC facilities, and access lists for services
+ that support TCP wrappers.</p>
</blockquote>
&footer;
--- www_features.sgml.diff ends here ---
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