From owner-freebsd-security Fri Dec 15 16:21:59 2000 From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 16:21:56 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C63D37B400 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:21:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id BAA24469; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:21:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14756U-0001GY-00 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:21:34 +0100 Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:21:34 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Update Tool.. Message-ID: <20001216012134.B2400@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ntvsunix@hotmail.com on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:16:29AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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