Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 09:56:45 -0700 (PDT) From: papowell@astart.com To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de Subject: Re: Connect to lpd on insecure port Message-ID: <200005281656.JAA24262@h4.private>
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> From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 07:17:19 2000 > Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 16:16:49 +0200 (CEST) > From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> > To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Connect to lpd on insecure port > > > Today I did some testing concerning lpd and I was very astonished to see > that lpd accepts jobs also from insecure ports (violating RFC 1179). It > does not accept such jobs on 2.1.6-RELEASE (yes, I still have some old 386 > system out there with 2.1.6) but it does on 3.x (and as far as I've seen > from the code) and 4.x and also on 2.2.6. > > Why and when has the behaviour of lpd been changed? I'd like lpd only to > accept connections from secure ports (do you remember the famous error > message `Malformed from address'? ;-) ) > > Thanks for any reply! > > Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: > Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche > Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen http://www.freebsd.org > Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen http://www.daemonnews.org > Deutschland (Germany) > > kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > The LPRng print spooler has this functionality. You can read the horrible nasty details about why there is this functionality in the LPRng HOWTO document in the LPRng distribution. Patrick Powell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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