Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:55:51 -0400 From: Jack Rusher <jar@mail.integratus.com> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net>, Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeSSH Message-ID: <38050DF7.768902E7@integratus.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991013170937.22726D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > > "local users SHOULD be given a unique uid >= 1000 -- values less than 1000 > are reserved for built-in accounts, and for add-on packages" or the like. > For the purposes of NFS, it seems desirable that when a package is > installed, it use the same uid consistently? > > I'm not sure the correct course of action is clear in my mind, but > whatever it is, it is certainly security-relevant. It seems to me that an /etc/services style mapping of services to UIDs would be an excellent idea. This sort of standardization would make the world work a little more smoothly. -- Jack Rusher, Chief Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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