ProPolice/SSP in 7.0

[Nikolay Pavlov]

On Wednesday 02 January 2008 23:16:51 Gunther Mayer wrote:
> Thanks everyone for answering my questions so far.
>
> Mike Silbersack wrote:
> > It's too late to make that sort of change for FreeBSD 7.0, but I think
> > that's a good goal for FreeBSD 8.0.
> >
> > Here's what I think you could do:
> >
> > 1.  Verify that enabling SSP works properly.
>
> Ok, I will certainly do that once 7.0 is out and I can run it for a
> while on our testing box.
>
> > 2.  Convince Kris Kennaway to run his mysql benchmarks on a FreeBSD 8
> > system both with and without SSP to verify that there is no
> > significant slowdown.
>
> Hmm, I guess Kris is not subscribed to -security? Maybe I'll have to
> post in -questions then...

But you can cc him directly.

>
> > 3.  Get it enabled on FreeBSD 8 by default.
> > 4.  Request that the change be made to FreeBSD 7.1 or 7.2 after it has
> > proven to not cause problems on FreeBSD 8.
>
> Ok, but what's the best way to go about that? Don't see that being
> documented in the handbook. Do you suggest a post on -questions or a
> send-pr or both?

Since this change is related to whole the system the arch would be a better 
place.

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