Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:01:50 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenBSD Security Advisory: mmap() Problem Message-ID: <199802271501.KAA04815@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802270423.UAA01955@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <19980226174359.3210.qmail@joshua.enteract.com> <199802270423.UAA01955@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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<<On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 20:23:06 -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> said: > crashes trying to access the VT. To get the XIG Accelerated X server > to work I've modified the patch to allow superuser to access to > character devices. The would be pointless. The whole purpose of the securelevel facility is to make it impossible for even the superuser to do certain things, so that when someone cracks root on your box, the amount of damage they can do is limited. -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 security" in the body of the message
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