Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:54:22 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much security should ldconfig enforce? Message-ID: <20000726225421.G30816@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000726193613.jdp@polstra.com> References: <XFMail.000726193613.jdp@polstra.com>
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On Wednesday, July 26, 2000, John Polstra wrote: > 1. It could allow anything, just like it did before I made my commit. > > 2. It could strictly enforce secure ownerships, groups, and > permissions -- i.e., keep last night's commit and add group > writability checking too. > > 3. It could default to strictly secure but accept a command-line > option to relax the constraints. And an rc.conf knob could be added > to control whether or not it was strict at boot time. I like the third option. You should be able to shoot yourself in the foot if you _really_ want to. -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, HACK! `--------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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