On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 07:56:52AM +0000, Bartłomiej Rutkowski wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:34:29AM -0600, Eric Badger wrote: > > > Thanks for working on making it easier to harden FreeBSD. While > > > defaulting some of these options to "on" seem pretty harmless (e.g. > > > random_pid), others are likely to cause confusion for new and > > > experienced users alike (e.g. proc_debug. I've never used that option > > > before, so I gave it a try. It simply causes gdb to hang when attempting > > > to start a process, with no obvious indication of why). > > > > I concur. In fact, harmless knobs should probably be turned on by default > > in FreeBSD itself (i.e., without any "hardening" help from the installer), > > while more intrusive ones should be opt-in, not opt-out. > > > > ./danfe > > > > I strongly believe we should, by default, ship as secured and hardened as > possible in order to improve overall security of new users installations. > Power users will and do change the OS as they please, they most likely > don't use bsdinstall in first place, so they're not affected in any way.
Sorry, I strongly disagree with that. I'm most likely a "power user" and I use bsdinstall. -- Joel _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
