Exciting project

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

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Hello Robert,

Monday, December 10, 2001, 5:56:47 PM, you wrote:


> FreeBSD, I suspect the most important accomplishments will be the
> ability to enforce mandatory access control policies, and provide
> system auditing services.

Can we expect TrustedBSD to provide a facility to log all changes to
the filesystem? This would not only be nice for auditing purposes,
but
also for stuff like virus scanners or filesystem replication tools.
In
fact, I'm desperately searching for a way to be notified of file
changes for exactly this...

> Originally, the TrustedBSD extensions were targetted specifically
> at the FreeBSD platform, and FreeBSD is still the primary target
> for this work. TrustedBSD features are begin integrated back into
> the base FreeBSD source, and a number of them will be available in
> FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE next year.

I hope ACLs will be working then. That would make FreeBSD a much
better player in many multi user environments. Personally, ACLs are
THE feature that I miss the most on all FreeNixes...

>> And finally, when can we try this out in beta?
> Some of the TrustedBSD features are already accessible in
> development snapshots of FreeBSD 5.0.  The FreeBSD Project
> currently plans to release a full development snapshot in late
> January, although the release itself attributes, file system ACLs,
> and reasonable support for POSIX.1e
> capabilities (privileges) will be in that snapshot.  We're
> currently  

That's *great* news. Allows us admins to get familiar with all the
exciting features way before the release...





Best regards,
 Gabriel
i°@П96

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