Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 01:52:49 -0500 From: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kmem, tty, bind security enhancements commit. Message-ID: <98Dec5.015255edt.37814-15902@qew.cs.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <19981201195028.A21015@follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Dec 1, 98 01:50:28 pm
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> I'm somewhat surprised at the getuid() test in ntalkd being there
> at all - it seems like this should have been done with permissions
> instead of getuid(), and shouldn't be needed anyway.
It looks to me like a broken version of the test many inetd-spawned
daemons have to make sure they're not accidentally run on the command
line. Normally there'd be a getpeername() on stdin or something, but
there isn't.
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