Re: More OpenBSD on Hacker News -- RBAC and jails anyone?

2014-02-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthew Weigel contributed: > > 1. Why doesn't OpenBSD have something like RBAC? > > RBAC has a lot more knobs to tweak, so you can always go back after a > security incident and say "aha! I need to tweak *that* knob to prevent > this next time!" But it has a steep learn

Re: More OpenBSD on Hacker News -- RBAC and jails anyone?

2014-02-24 Thread opendaddy
Thank you so much for the explanation guys. It makes perfect sense now. O.D. On 24. februar 2014 at 3:50 AM, "Nick Holland" wrote:On 02/23/14 21:09, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > Got some more layman's questions here after reading > [url snipped] > >> > OpenBSD for security >> >>

Re: More OpenBSD on Hacker News -- RBAC and jails anyone?

2014-02-23 Thread Matthew Weigel
On 02/23/2014 08:09 PM, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > 1. Why doesn't OpenBSD have something like RBAC? RBAC has a lot more knobs to tweak, so you can always go back after a security incident and say "aha! I need to tweak *that* knob to prevent this next time!" But it has a steep learning curve,

Re: More OpenBSD on Hacker News -- RBAC and jails anyone?

2014-02-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/23/14 21:09, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > Got some more layman's questions here after reading > [url snipped] > >> > OpenBSD for security >> >> I dunno, I hear this a lot. Sure OpenBSD has created and implemented >> some (often very bleeding edge) hardening features, but nothi

More OpenBSD on Hacker News -- RBAC and jails anyone?

2014-02-23 Thread opendaddy
Hello, Got some more layman's questions here after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7287639 -- > > OpenBSD for security > > I dunno, I hear this a lot. Sure OpenBSD has created and implemented > some (often very bleeding edge) hardening features, but nothing that > hasn't seen the l