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Date:      Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:13:43 -0400
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Cc:        Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: rsh/rlogin (was Re: sysinstall DOESN'T ASK, dangerous defaults!) 
Message-ID:  <200009231613.e8NGDh560434@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>  of "Sat, 23 Sep 2000 08:22:17 PDT." <200009231522.e8NFMn964757@cwsys.cwsent.com> 

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> Having said that and taking my security officer hat off and putting my 
> manager hat on.  Most organisations that use SSH are using it 
> illegally.  With recent licensing changes and the fact that OpenSSH 
> doesn't install all that cleanly on non-BSD platforms, e.g. no 
> /dev/random, compile errors, and my customers report that OpenSSH 
> sometimes hangs on Solaris 2.6 systems (probably related to the entropy 
> gathering daemon that substitutes /dev/random on non-BSD systems), the 
> quick and dirty solutions are:

Or possibly related to Solaris 2.6 being increasingly ancient and buggy...

> 6.  Turning off or turning on of setuid bits of most setuid apps.

Hopefully, this won't be useful soon because things will not be setuid and 
just have the right capabilities :)  Anything left suid will need to have 
its architecture thought out a bit more -- most uses of it are very 
suboptimal.

--
 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
 green@FreeBSD.org                    `------------------------------'




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