svn commit: r239568 - head/etc/rc.d

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 22 22:25:13 UTC 2012


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:37:37PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Were these changes discussed somewhere and I missed it?

They were not discussed.  I did not see the need.

This is simple functionality.  If securelevel is raised > 0, one
cannot start up a firewall nor make major changes to time.
Thus these components are required to be done before raising securelevel.

 
> I'm not opposed per se, but the security aspects should be discussed on
> freebsd-security@,

I'm sorry, I didn't feel that ensuring the software follows the
published specification of its functionality to have such a security
aspect.

> and it's preferable that significant changes to
> rcorder be looked at on freebsd-rc@ as well.

I don't consider this to be a significant change.

I do have some significant changes that I do want freebsd-rc@ to
review I will be sending soon.

> Can you hold off on MFC'ing any of this until it's been reviewed more
> thoroughly?

Yes.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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