www/63031: www/features.sgml - add security as a feature of FreeBSD

[Linh Pham]

>Number:         63031
>Category:       www
>Synopsis:       www/features.sgml - add security as a feature of FreeBSD
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-www
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 18 11:00:32 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Linh Pham
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD q.internal.closedsrc.org 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 #0: Sun Feb 15 16:07:21 PST 2004 question at q.internal.closedsrc.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Q i386
>Description:
Add a section to features.sgml that tout the security features of FreeBSD,
using the section from internet.sgml as the basis for the wording.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

--- www_features.sgml.diff begins here ---
--- features.sgml.old	Wed Feb 18 10:36:09 2004
+++ features.sgml	Wed Feb 18 10:51:47 2004
@@ -82,9 +82,27 @@
         kernel, allowing higher performance on multi-processor machines,
         support for Scheduler Activations, allowing parallelism in threaded
         programs, filesystem snapshots, fsck-free booting, network
-	optimizations such as zero-copy sockets and event-driven socket IO,		ACPI support, and advanced security features such as Mandatory
+	optimizations such as zero-copy sockets and event-driven socket IO,
+	ACPI support, and advanced security features such as Mandatory
 	Access Control.</p>
 
+    </blockquote>
+
+    <hr align="left" noshade="noshade" with="100%"><font
+      color="#FF0000"><font size="+1">FreeBSD provides many security features
+        to protect networks and servers.</font></font>
+
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>The FreeBSD developers are as concerned about security as they are
+	about performance and compatibility. FreeBSD includes kernel support
+	for stateful IP firewalling, as well as other services, such as
+	IP proxy gateways.</p>
+
+      <p>FreeBSD also includes support for encryption software, secure
+	shells, Kerberos authentication, "virtual servers" created using
+	jails, chroot-ing services to restrict application access to the
+	file system, secure RPC facilities, and access lists for services
+	that support TCP wrappers.</p>
     </blockquote>
 
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--- www_features.sgml.diff ends here ---


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