Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:05:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Allowing non root users to bind low ports Message-ID: <199906221805.OAA13086@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199906221758.FAA07268@aniwa.sky> References: <xzpemj590if.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <199906221758.FAA07268@aniwa.sky>
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<<On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 05:58:36 +1200, Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> said: > Sounds too much like Windows for my liking. Nothing short of reconfiguring > the kernel or a make world should require a reboot. Well, it's a choice you have to make -- do you want easy configuration, or do you want to make life very difficult for crackers? Obviously if your goal is the latter, then you must accept some difficulty in the former -- otherwise the crackers can simply impersonate you and make nefarious changes. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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