From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 18 7:56:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C48937B599 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 07:56:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA86357; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:56:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:56:07 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200002181556.KAA86357@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list) In-Reply-To: <200002180743.JAA26529@gratis.grondar.za> References: <20000218062947.B0DDE1CD9@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200002180743.JAA26529@gratis.grondar.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > o A username may only be checked $number times per $timeperiod; > after that, _all_ answers are silently converted to "no". Easier: a username may only be checked by a process running as $uid or by root. > ... etc. There are possibilities for DoS attacks, but the daemon > talks only to a Unix Domain Socket, so finding the perp is easy. And what happens when the daemon is dead, has crashed, or was never started? -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 freebsd-current" in the body of the message