It's not cool to change security-related sysctl names
Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.security |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Between NetBSD 5 and NetBSD 6, the name of the 'curtain' sysctl was changed with no backwards compatibility. The result is that systems upgraded to NetBSD 6, which set curtain in /etc/sysctl.conf, like so: security.models.bsd44.curtain=1 Will now fail to do so. If their admins don't notice the warning message at boot time, the system will come up and run but sensitive data may be disclosed (presumably if people set curtain in sysctl.conf, they have good reason for doing so). This is not cool. It might actually warrant an advisory. -- Thor Lancelot Simon [email protected] It's very complicated. It's very cumbersome. There's a lot of numbers involved with it.