replace uname -a informational string

[Michael Schuster]

I seem to remember there's a trick using dtrace where you intercept the
uname syscall/library call  .. that was on Solaris, though, don't know how
that would map onto FreeBSD.

regards
Michael

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Michael B. Eichorn <ike at michaeleichorn.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 09:08 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > For security purposes, I need to replace the informations given by
> > "uname -a"
> > to hode the kernel build system, name et cetera.
>
> I presume you intendend 'hide' here?
>
> If you want to scrub a binaries of _all_ information about the building
> system this is a problem Debian is actively working on called
> 'reproducible builds' but is not possible today.
>
> https://reproducible.debian.net
>
> If you want to hide the hostname, why not just build with a different
> hostname set?
>
> >
> > Is there a way to achieve this via setting some knobs in the process of
> > a
> > buildkernel?
> >
> > Please CC me, I'm not subscriber of the list.
> >
> > Kind regards and thanks in advance,
> >
> > O. Hartmann
>



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