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Date:      Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:14:38 +1000 (EST)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        eivind@FreeBSD.ORG (Eivind Eklund)
Cc:        avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proposed secure-level 4 patch
Message-ID:  <199906211414.AAA19019@cheops.anu.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <19990621142104.X63035@bitbox.follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Jun 21, 99 02:21:04 pm

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In some mail from Eivind Eklund, sie said:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 03:18:34PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> > How about a bit vector defining which ports can and can't be bound from
> > non-root below 1024 ?
> > 
> > a 256 byte array doesn't sound too bad does it ?
> 
> Why haven't I seen the magic words of 'Merge from OpenBSD' in a commit
> related to this yet? ;-)
> 
> (OpenBSD has support for this, and the patches didn't look scarily large)

Because nobody who tracks OpenBSD reads this list ? :)  By all means, if
that's what they do then import their code rather than create a new and
incompatible mechanism.

Darren


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