One of the things I really want to do, is to get rid of the limitations
of our current utmp(5) mechanism:
- It only allows 8 byte TTY device names.
- The hostname only allows 16 bytes of storage.
I'm not a big fan of <utmpx.h>, but I think we should at least try to
add parts of it. Unfortunately we cannot implement <utmpx.h>, because we
miss various fields, such as ut_id, ut_pid, etc. The API provided by
libulog shares some similarities with <utmpx.h>, so it shouldn't be too
hard to port these applications eventually. In most simple cases, it
should just be a matter of removing the ulog_ prefix everywhere.
As a bonus, it also implements a function called ulog_login_pseudo(),
which allows unprivileged applications to write log entries, provided
they have a valid file descriptor to a pseudo-terminal master device.
libulog will allow a smoother transition to a new file format by adding
a library interface to deal with utmp/wtmp/lastlog files. I initially
thought about adding the functionality to libutil, but because I'm not
planning on keeping this library around forever, we'd better keep it
separated.
Next items on the todo list:
1. Port applications in the base system (and ports) to libulog, instead
of letting them use <utmp.h>.
2. Remove <utmp.h>, implement <utmpx.h> and reimplement this library on
top.
3. Port as many applications as possible back to <utmpx.h>.
it from the build.
If you are using the FTP daemon, please consider using the port ftp/tnftpd
which is the same FTP server, but newer and might have more/better
functionality.
This results in us providing only one ftp daemon by default.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: imp (mentor, implicit)
MFC after: 3 days
Silence from: obrien
The makekey utility has been deprecated and will be removed in a future
release of FreeBSD.
Actually removing it was approved back on 10/29/2007 by re (kensmith) but
I dropped the ball on actually removing it. It's doubtful that it's become
more relevant/useful in the intervening time.
control over the result of buildworld and installworld; this especially
helps packaging systems such as nanobsd
Reviewed by: various (posted to arch)
MFC after: 1 month
Before we had a posix_openpt() that allocated PTY's with proper
permissions in place, we used this set-uid utility to change the
ownership of PTY slave devices to the real user ID of the process. This
utility was used to implement grantpt().
In my first designs of the MPSAFE TTY layer, I replaced this by adding
an ioctl() called TIOCGRANTPT, which was used to change the ownership.
I left the pt_chown utility, because older C libraries needed it to work
properly.
After some discussions back in June I changed the PTY code to set
permissions properly upon creation. Fortunately the previous grantpt()
implementation changed permissions by hand when pt_chown is not
installed, which always succeeds. This means grantpt() still works
properly, even though the set-uid utility is missing.
I've done tests with FreeBSD 5.2.1, FreeBSD 6.3 and FreeBSD 7.0 jails.
All of them still work if I remove pt_chown.
Reviewed by: philip (ex-mentor)
src/Makefile.inc1 rev. 1.590, it can allow installing a world
cross-built for a different arch over the live system. The procedure
is more or less as follows:
cp -R /rescue /rescue.old
make installkernel TARGET_ARCH=foo
make -DNO_RTLD installworld TARGET_ARCH=foo
^^^^^^^^^
PATH=/rescue.old
chflags noschg /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
cp /usr/obj/foo/usr/src/libexec/rtld/ld-elf.so.1 /libexec
chflags schg /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
<ditto for ld-elf32.so.1 if installing for amd64>
reboot
method of executing commands remotely. There are no rexec clients in
the FreeBSD tree, and the client function rexec(3) is present only in
libcompat. It has been documented as "obsolete" since 4.3BSD, and its
use has been discouraged in the man page for over 10 years.
If turned on no NIS support and related programs will be built.
Lost parts rediscovered by: Danny Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il>
PR: bin/68303
No objections: des, gshapiro, nectar
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
stable ld.so. We need to revisit the rtld-elf/sparc64/rtld_start.S
rev. 1.5 and rtld-elf/sparc64/rtld_machdep.h rev. 1.5, which was
suppose to allow stock Binutils 2.13 (and later) to be used.
This adds the former ports registered groups: proxy and authpf as well as
the proxy user. Make sure to run mergemaster -p in oder to complete make
installworld without errors.
This also provides the passive OS fingerprints from OpenBSD (pf.os) and an
example pf.conf.
For those who want to go without pf; it provides a NO_PF knob to make.conf.
__FreeBSD_version will be bumped soon to reflect this and to be able to
change ports accordingly.
Approved by: bms(mentor)
- Unify the conditional assignments section so that architectural
exclusions come first, then options and !options, sorted by the
option name, also in directory order, then architecture specific
sections, sorted by the architecture name, with i386 being a
traditional exception.
Prodded by: bde
Previously, there were two copies of telnet; a non-crypto version
that lived in the usual places, and a crypto version that lived in
crypto/telnet/. The latter was built in a broken manner somewhat akin
to other "contribified" sources. This meant that there were 4 telnets
competing with each other at build time - KerberosIV, Kerberos5,
plain-old-secure and base. KerberosIV is no longer in the running, but
the other three took it in turns to jump all over each other during a
"make buildworld".
As the crypto issue has been clarified, and crypto _calls_ are not
a problem, crypto/telnet has been repo-copied to contrib/telnet,
and with this commit, all telnets are now "contribified". The contrib
path was chosen to not destroy history in the repository, and differs
from other contrib/ entries in that it may be worked on as "normal"
BSD code. There is no dangerous crypto in these sources, only a
very weak system less strong than enigma(1).
Kerberos5 telnet and Secure telnet are now selected by using the usual
macros in /etc/make.conf, and the build process is unsurprising and
less treacherous.
to Solaris, it is in /usr/libexec) to perform the handing over of tty nodes
to the user being granted the pty.
Submitted by: Ryan Younce <ryany@pobox.com>
Reviewed by: security-officer@, standards@, mike@
under way to move the remnants of the a.out toolchain to ports. As the
comment in src/Makefile said, this stuff is deprecated and one should not
expect this to remain beyond 4.0-REL. It has already lasted WAY beyond
that.
Notable exceptions:
gcc - I have not touched the a.out generation stuff there.
ldd/ldconfig - still have some code to interface with a.out rtld.
old as/ld/etc - I have not removed these yet, pending their move to ports.
some includes - necessary for ldd/ldconfig for now.
Tested on: i386 (extensively), alpha
it can be used to reseed at boot time. This will greatly increase
the chances that there will be sufficient entropy available at
boot time to prevent long delays.
For /etc/rc, remove the vmstat and iostat runs from the attempt
to provide some cheesy randomness if the files fail, since
those programs are dynamically linked, and ldd seems to want
some randomness to do its magic.
Guidance and parameters for this project were provided by
Mark Murray, based on the requirements of the Yarrow
algorithm. Some helpful suggestions for implementation
(including the tip about iostat and vmstat) were provided
by Sheldon Hearn. All blame for problems or mistakes is
mine of course.
