From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 15:40: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0144B37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp020.tiscali.dk (smtp020.tiscali.dk [212.54.64.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ECAE43E4A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from db@traceroute.dk) Received: from rafter. (213.237.112.252.adsl.arsy.worldonline.dk [213.237.112.252]) by smtp020.tiscali.dk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g99MS6Sm001433 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:28:10 +0200 (MEST) From: Socketd Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 22:45:10 GMT Message-ID: <20021009.22451000.4017525480@rafter.> Subject: Security questions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2;Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all I've noticed that syslogd run as root, but why? Syslog just need to=20 connect to a port, get messages and write them to some files, so why doe= s=20 I have to be root? I know you have to be root to bind() to a port below = 1024, but there should be a syslog user to lower UID to after it have=20 done that?!?!? Btw is the BBS, Heap and stack executable in freebsd? If yes, why? And=20 can you guide me to some detailed info about ELF? Br socketd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message