Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:21:34 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Update Tool.. Message-ID: <20001216012134.B2400@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <F184Mum03yMJiQTyfPe00000f1e@hotmail.com>; from ntvsunix@hotmail.com on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:16:29AM %2B0000 References: <F184Mum03yMJiQTyfPe00000f1e@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:16:29AM +0000, Some Person wrote: > Hey ppl. Sorry I just joined the list so I dunno what kinda posts usally go > on here but I was just browsing www.freebsd.org/security and... > > Well, seeing there's new security discoveries, patches and a whole schlew of > CERT advisories etc.. it's hard to keep up with what needs securing, and > what to secure, from the base system, from the ports, etc. > > My question is, is there a util yet that in theory (maybe if so, or if > someone writes one would work differently than what I'm imagining) queries a > central database with all the security advisories, checks the local system > for comparisons and vulnerabilities against that database and reports to the > user who ran the util. > > ie, sacheck -H sa-host.freebsd.org Such thing already exists for NetBSD, at least for pkgs/pkgsrc. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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