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I disagree as to the harmlessness of keeping around unmaintained |
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documentation. |
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1. Leaving existing documentation in place would mislead viewers into |
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believing some level of official support is available. |
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2. There's no one on the team who uses RSBAC and can verify the documentation |
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is current, correct (and keep it that way) and won't do harm. |
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3. Why would we continue to host documentation for a technology that is not |
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supported or available in Hardened Gentoo proper? Are you propsing we also |
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host documentation for other technologies we don't utilize - AppArmor for |
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instance? |
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4. There are plenty of good places to put non-official documentation, such as |
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gentoo-wiki.com. |
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5. The documentation is forever available @ |
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http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/hardened/rsbac/ |
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I am truly sorry it has come to this, but "it is what it is". |
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Sincerely, |
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Gordon Malm (gengor) |
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On Sunday, December 28, 2008 21:42:05 Javier J. Martínez Cabezón wrote: |
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> Why do you want to remove all rsbac related documentation?, I think is |
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> a non-sense to do this. Documentation does not harm anybody and in |
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> case of rsbac is almost nonexistent . |
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> I'm an rsbac user (maybe one of the last) and a gentoo hardened one, I |
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> have never used gentoo rsbac ebuilds, so for me is not any kind of |
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> change. |
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> Maybe you could put your opinion in the main page of the mandatory |
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> access controls related (something like rsbac is not longer maintained |
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> in gentoo so we suggest you to change to by this reason and this one |
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> and this one.... blahblahblah). |
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> 2008/12/29 Gordon Malm <gengor@g.o>: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > |
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> > Hardened Gentoo has been without an RSBAC maintainer for quite a long |
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> > time now. |
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> > |
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> > Support for RSBAC in Hardened Gentoo is discontinued effective |
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> > immediately. RSBAC-related ebuilds, bugs and documents will begin being |
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> > purged starting January 31st, 2009. |
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> > |
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> > All users of RSBAC in Hardened Gentoo who require mandatory or role based |
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> > access control are strongly encouraged to migrate to Grsecurity's RBAC or |
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> > SELinux at this time. Anyone wishing to continue using RSBAC will be |
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> > without support from the Hardened Gentoo project. |
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> > |
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> > The RSBAC project itself continues as normal @ http://www.rsbac.org. |
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> > |
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> > Sincerely, |
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> > Gordon Malm (gengor) |
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