From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 22 11: 5:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4A11545C for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:05:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA13086; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:05:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:05:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199906221805.OAA13086@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Andrew McNaughton Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Allowing non root users to bind low ports In-Reply-To: <199906221758.FAA07268@aniwa.sky> References: <199906221758.FAA07268@aniwa.sky> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < 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