Re: [RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support

2012-06-05 Thread Ed Schouten
Hi Bryan, 2012/6/4 Bryan Drewery br...@shatow.net: * Added utmp group Why call it utmp? FreeBSD 9+ does not do utmp. It does utmpx. Also, too many pieces of software already abuse the group `utmp'. Instead of doing utmp handling with it, it is used to cover all sorts of this uses TTYs

Re: SuperPages utilization survey

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 06:49:18 -0500, Florian Smeets f...@freebsd.org wrote: As far as i understand it does at least enable usage of pages up to 4MB, perhaps someone should teach mysql about the FreeBSD's limits? If you look at the output i sent, it certainly changes from using no superpage

Re: [RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support

2012-06-05 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 6/5/2012 9:06 AM, Ed Schouten wrote: Hi Bryan, 2012/6/4 Bryan Drewery br...@shatow.net: * Added utmp group Why call it utmp? FreeBSD 9+ does not do utmp. It does utmpx. Also, too many pieces of software already abuse the group `utmp'. Instead of doing utmp handling with it, it is used

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:51:50 -0500, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: ISTR someone on the lists was talking about a device by http://i-odd.com which does what you want. I found http://renosite.com/ which is a home brew version of the same basic idea. Zalman ZM-VE200 and

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-05 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:51:50 -0500, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: ISTR someone on the lists was talking about a device by http://i-odd.com which does what you want. I found http://renosite.com/ which is a home

Re: [RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support

2012-06-05 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 08:42:04PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote: I've written up a patch to add some privacy to last(1) while still giving non-privileged users access to their own login history. This is still a work in progress. I am reaching out to make sure my approach is proper and to get

Re: [RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support

2012-06-05 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 6/5/2012 4:31 PM, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: To avoid this, the utmpx APIs could communicate with a privileged daemon if the files are not readable. The daemon can check the identity of the caller via getpeereid(3). (Unfortunately, even if getpeereid() is bypassed and LOCAL_PEERCRED called