From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 15 9:19:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D1037B4D7 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:19:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eAFHJLk01385; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:19:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:19:21 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing a running process's credentials Message-ID: <20001115091920.D830@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001115090934.A830@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001115161316.C309@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20001115084722.I29448@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001115190135.E309@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20001115090934.A830@fw.wintelcom.net> <200011151716.KAA56789@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011151716.KAA56789@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:16:29AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Warner Losh [001115 09:16] wrote: > In message <20001115090934.A830@fw.wintelcom.net> Alfred Perlstein writes: > : Unless this syscall was restricted to root, or a small subset of > : uid's it would cause some severe security issues from my point > : of view. > > Even the small subset of uids would be highly suspect. Setable via a syscall/sysctl only by root. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message