Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:49:27 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? Message-ID: <199811161849.LAA05146@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:59:09 %2B0100." <19981116125909.A28486@internal> References: <19981116125909.A28486@internal> <19981116072937.E969@internal> <19981115192224.A29686@internal> <19981115161548.A23869@internal> <199811151758.JAA15108@apollo.backplane.com> <19981115192224.A29686@internal> <199811152210.PAA01604@harmony.village.org> <199811160658.XAA01912 <
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In message <19981116125909.A28486@internal> Andre Albsmeier writes: : That is exactly my opinion. I think a program should run with the : minimum privileges it really needs to and not more. I still think that it is a lot of effort for just one or two programs. xlock and xlockmore (basically the same program) are the only two programs that I'm aware of that need to access the password file and not change the uid of the process. Where are the rest of the half dozen :-)... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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