Subject: Re: NetBSD DOSEMU -- questions from a prospective NetBSD user
To: Max Bell <mbell@europa.com>
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@theos.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/21/1996 03:00:00
> > > - Security and networking are also things I need to know about.
> >
> >NetBSD is a fairly secure system. I certainly haven't run into any
> >security problems, in any of the environments I run NetBSD in (quite a
> >few). I use some auxillary tools (such as ssh), but other than that,
> >pretty stock system for me.
>
> The only security problems I have ever heard of in NetBSD are the new ones
> that struck all flavors [syslog()]. And NetBSD was one of the first to
> patch them out of existance.
I would say that is an incorrect assesment of the situation, since
I've fixed about 20 security holes in OpenBSD -- a NetBSD derived
system. I think NetBSD has fixed 1 of those (in a different way).