Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security Confirmed Errata

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Corrected".

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Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question

Version	Location	Description	Submitted By
Printed	Page .. will go no father than [..]	should be	Anonymous
Printed	Page .. will go no farther than [..]		Anonymous
Printed	Page 3 2nd paragraph	"orwere" should be "or were" Note from the Author or Editor: correct.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 27 3rd para	looked an example should be looked at an example	Anonymous
Printed	Page 42 last oaragraph "ACLs in the superblock"	..."For example to enable ACLs on the /home filesystem, you would unmount it, and run tunefs -a /home."... Should be ..."For example to enable ACLs on the /home filesystem, you would unmount it, and run tunefs -a enable /home."... ^^^^^^	Anonymous
Printed	Page 50 Paragraph about Random PIDs	a "been" is missing in: A number of exploits, such as race conditions, make use of the fact that process IDs (PIDs) have historically <here> issued sequentially by the operating system. Note from the Author or Editor: correct.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 61 1st paragraph	"When we text say chroot..." should read: "When we say chroot..."	Anonymous
Printed	Page 99 1st para, 2nd dot point	ask a should be as a	Anonymous
Printed	Page 110 1st paragraph	"For more information about PAM and login classes." should read: "For more information about PAM and login classes, please refer to the pam(8) and login.conf(5) manpages."	Anonymous
Printed	Page 130 2nd paragraph	[..] will go no father than [..] should be [..] will go no farther than [..] Note from the Author or Editor: Correct.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 130 2nd paragraph		Anonymous
Printed	Page 130 Last para (note)	form, which should be from which	Anonymous
Printed	Page 150 paragraph starting with 'The latter lines...'	dip.t-dailin.net should be dip.t-dialin.net (not only because the latter is mentioned in example 4.7 but also because that's the correct address that german telekom assign to their clients)	Anonymous
Printed	Page 159 Example 4.10	Judging by the shebang line, the script is supposed to be a Bourne Shell script. However, neither the lines level1_sys=alpha beta gamma delta level2_sys=mercury venus earth mars nor foreach system in $level1_sys; do are valid Bourne Shell (or ksh or bash) syntax. Note from the Author or Editor: These are syntax errors. Two lines need double quotes: level1_sys="alpha beta gamma delta" level2_sys="mercury venus earth mars" The other line should read: for system in $level1_sys; do	Anonymous
Printed	Page 176 4th para	trying deliver should be trying to deliver	Anonymous
Printed	Page 183 Last sentence	Even since should be Ever since	Anonymous
Printed	Page 189,193 Last paragraph on each page	BIND 9 has replaced BIND 8.3.1-REL as the included name server software as of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. It is now chrooted by default.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 221 4th para	the To: line should be the From: line	Anonymous
Printed	Page 318 1st para	rc.firewall to should be rc.firewall too	Anonymous
Printed	Page 367 2nd paragraph	> The manual page for syslog.conf(5) specifies that these facilities are for local use. The manual page for syslog.conf(5) does not actually mention the purpose of local[0-7], the one for syslog(3) does, however: LOG_LOCAL0 Reserved for local use. Similarly for LOG_LOCAL1 through LOG_LOCAL7. > You, the administrator, may define these seven facilities [..] Unless local0 has a special meaning there are eigth of them. Note from the Author or Editor: This is correct. There are 8 facilities LOCAL0 through LOCAL7 and they are documented in the syslog(3) man page.	Anonymous