by providing the opportunity to edit inetd.conf during the system
installation process. The following modifications were made:
(1) Expand the Anonymous FTP description dialog to indicate that inetd
and ftpd must be enabled before it can be used.
(2) Introduce a new configInetd() pair of dialogs, the first describing
inetd, giving a couple of examples of services that require it, and
hinting at potential risk, then asking the user if they wish to
enable it. The second indicates that inetd.conf must be configured
to enabled specific services, and asks if the user would like to
load inetd.conf into the editor to modify it. Add this
configuration action to the index.
There are some further improvements that might be considered:
(1) Provide a more inetd.conf-specific configuration tool that speaks
inetd.conf(5). However, this is made difficult by the "yet another
configuration format" nature of inetd.conf, as well as its use of
commenting to disable services, rather than an in-syntax way to
disable a service without commenting it out. Submissions here
would probably be welcome.
(2) There's some overlap between settings in the somewhat obtuse
Security Profile mechanism and other settings, including the inetd
setting, and NFS server configuration. As features become
individually tunable, they should probably be removed from the
security profile mechanism. Otherwise, somewhat counter-intuitively,
sysinstall (in practice) queries multiple times whether inetd, nfsd,
etc, should be enabled/disabled. A possible future direction might
be to drive profiles not by degree of paranoia, rather, the set
of services desired. Or simply to remove the Security Profile
mechanism and resort to feature-driven configuration.
Reviewed by: imp, chris, jake, nate, -arch, -stable
names suggest, they perform methods on Device's. In addition, they
check that the pointer passed to them is valid; if it isn't, they
pretend that the action failed. This fixes some crashes due to NULL
dereferences (e.g., PR 26509).
Approved by: jkh (some time ago)
need to manually force the network_interfaces variable in /etc/rc.conf,
and it only ever gets in the way. rc.network and rc.network6 DTRT with
the default of 'auto'. This should have died over a year ago.
no as a default. Sysinstall should be both less dangerous and less
annoying as a result of this change, though that's just my opinion
(since they're the defaults which annoy ME the least :).
rename the previous one to indicate that it's not just high, it's
extreme (everything off, secure level raised).
Submitted mostly by: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
appropriate(?) defaults for "low", "medium" and "high" security
environments. Medium is basically what we currently have with a little
seat-belt tightening where it made sense. Low is the same as medium but
without the tightening. High is positively fascist with nothing turned
on by default and an automatic call to 911 if it can find a modem.
does bad things to /etc/make.conf in certain situations. Also
soften the "don't install crypto from the USA!" messages since,
except for RSA (which is still noted), that's not so true anymore.
IPv6 configuration is only done by rtsol. Does someone really
need manual configuration? :-)
You can specify IPv6 DNS server as well.
We have only one server ftp7.jp.freebsd.org that speaks IPv6
in this time. ftp7.jp speaks IPv4 as well and also listed as
Japan #7.
Approved by: jkh
boot.flp and plain boot.flp.
- Clean up crunchgen related routine.
- Add PC-98 support.
TODO:
o Documentation
o Fix some messages for PC-98
o Decrease the size of fixit.flp to 1.2MB
o I18N (See: http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/BootAsia/index.html)
No response from jkh
setting 'usbd_enable' in rc.conf during nwe installs if USB is detected.
Also, since usbd already handles USB mice automatically, note that the
mouse setup section in sysinstall only applies to non-USB mice.
Approved by: jkh
You can't enable 'emulate 3 button' option for moused in sysinstall.
This adds a menu option to set moused_flags and the help text explains
that entering "-3" will enable this feature.
on locale.
o Allow use of "G" in label editor to stand for gigabytes. This
is actually an unrelated patch which I meant to commit separately
but what the heck, it's late.
Partially submitted by: phk
I backed-out the changes in -current and didn't touch stable at all (I
thought I had my patch order reversed, not what actually happened).
AIEEE! I can't even blame the crack for this one since I broke my
crack pipe a few weeks ago. I think sleep deprivation gets the blame
for this one.
Medal for noticing this one goes to: Jim Bloom <bloom@acm.org>
bringing in DHCP support. The only thing I left out were Poul-Henning's
newfs changes since I'm not sure if he's brought the rest of that support
into -stable yet. If it turns out that this is the case, I'll MFC those
changes too.
Originally submitted by: Wayne Self <wself@cdrom.com>
Allow a ppp startup option in rc.conf.
Adjust sysinstall so that it appends to the end of ppp.conf
and uses the generated profile to start ppp in auto mode on
boot.
Submitted by: Josef L. Karthauser <joe@uk.FreeBSD.org>
in some code from C. Stone to parse the lease information. This is still
a WIP and this commit is largely intended to allow others to sync up; the
dhclient code still only works when doing dhcp configuration post-install
and requires a bit more work on the boot floppy before it will truly
work in the minimal bootstrapping role.
on CDs and FTP sites.
o Collapse some redundant code.
o Fix typo'd menu.
o Restrict searches properly to packages rather than categories.
o Small tweaks to signal handling.
All RELENG_3 candidates.
feature of packages now so that no version info is embedded.
o Add a default X desktop menu offering afterstep, enlightenment, KDE, GNOME
and Windowmaker desktops instead of the boring twm(1) based one if the
user so chooses. This will require a little testing.