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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:36:46 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        wjw@IAEhv.nl, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure?
Message-ID:  <19981116133646.43640@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199811161203.NAA21406@surf.IAE.nl>; from Willem Jan Withagen on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:03:04PM %2B0100
References:  <199811161055.CAA18393@apollo.backplane.com> <199811161203.NAA21406@surf.IAE.nl>

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On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:03:04PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> lpd (and friends) have a replacement: LPRng. Which runs as GID daemon, and
> has a lot of nice other features. Next to the fact that it is a maintained
> product.

Unfortunately it isn't maintained 'well enough' to continiously take
in the FreeBSD fixes.  We've fixed security problems which they've had
come upon them like a bomb a year later.

Eivind.

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