Re: kern.randompid: jot generation senseful?

2006-05-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:13, Frank Steinborn wrote: > Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > Isn't kern.randompid a boolean? TRUE or FALSE? > > No. > > > It is just on or off. 1 means PIDs are random. > > 0 means PIDs are sequential. to be exact, everything > > not being 0, is TRUE. > > That is not true. Pe

Re: kern.randompid: jot generation senseful?

2006-05-09 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 9 May 2006 16:13:18 +0200 Frank Steinborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > Isn't kern.randompid a boolean? TRUE or FALSE? > > No. > > > It is just on or off. 1 means PIDs are random. > > 0 means PIDs are sequential. to be exact, everything > > not being 0, is TRU

Re: kern.randompid: jot generation senseful?

2006-05-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:20:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net wrote: > [asked on -security before, but no answer, maybe here's more traffic ;-)] > > hi, > > is a random pid generation really a security enhancement? Yes, but a fairly minor one. > > if yes, would it make sense to setup s

Re: kern.randompid: jot generation senseful?

2006-05-09 Thread Frank Steinborn
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Isn't kern.randompid a boolean? TRUE or FALSE? No. > It is just on or off. 1 means PIDs are random. > 0 means PIDs are sequential. to be exact, everything > not being 0, is TRUE. That is not true. Peter Pentchev once wrote: "The kern.randompid sysctl is not a boolean

Re: kern.randompid: jot generation senseful?

2006-05-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net wrote: > [asked on -security before, but no answer, maybe here's more traffic ;-)] > > hi, > > is a random pid generation really a security enhancement? > > if yes, would it make sense to setup something like: > --> sysctl kern.randompid=`jo

Re: kern.randompid: jot generation senseful?

2006-05-09 Thread Jahilliya
On 5/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [asked on -security before, but no answer, maybe here's more traffic ;-)] hi, is a random pid generation really a security enhancement? if yes, would it make sense to setup something like: --> sysctl kern.randompid=`jot -r 1 50

kern.randompid: jot generation senseful?

2006-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
[asked on -security before, but no answer, maybe here's more traffic ;-)] hi, is a random pid generation really a security enhancement? if yes, would it make sense to setup something like: --> sysctl kern.randompid=`jot -r 1 500 2000` in cron to be executed every X mins/hrs? and finally, what a