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Date:      Sun, 20 Jun 1999 02:59:37 +0400 (MSD)
From:      -=ArkanoiD=- <ark@eltex.ru>
To:        des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
Cc:        ark@eltex.ru, brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proposed secure-level 4 patch
Message-ID:  <199906192259.CAA05415@paranoid.eltex.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <xzp3dzo9y3r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Jun 19, 1999 02:24:56 pm"

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nuqneH,

Why are you so sure about _outbound_ services?
What's wrong with lp? There are many devices that can't talk ssh yet.
So rsh/rlogin has some use too. You can kerberize that services btw.

Somebody (maybe you, Dag-Erling Smorgrav) WROTE:
>  -=ArkanoiD=- <ark@eltex.ru> writes:
>  > btw do you know your "securelevel 4" will break legacy protocols
>  > incl. outbound rsh,rlogin,lp,partially even ssh?
>  
>  So? If you're security-conscious enough to use securelevels, you sure
>  don't allow rsh, rlogin or lp, and ssh doesn't need privileged ports
>  to run. Remove the SUID bit on the ssh binary, or run it with the -P
>  option.


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