feedback, security documentation

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 20 20:43:54 UTC 2003


On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:11:33 +0200
Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 01:34:31PM -0400, Greg Weiss wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > Perhaps a 10.3.10 section, titled "Check regularly for security advisories",
> > with at a minimum, something like this:
> > 
> >         <p>Keeping your system updated with the latest security patches
> >         is an important aspect of system security.  You may want to
> >         subscribe to various email lists for this purpose.  You can
> >         find FreeBSD security advisories within the release notes
> >         of the latest version of FreeBSD, at:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/errata.html
> > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/errata.html
> >         </p>
> > 
> > I hope you will accept this constructive cricism in the positive light it 
> > is intended. Thanks for the fine work.
> >
> 
> It is indeed a really good idea.  I will add this section with some
> additions in the Handbook.
> 

Heh, and this was one of the issues I was planning to address while
working on this chapter; during the Kerberos5 addition.

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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