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Date:      Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:26:16 +0000
From:      Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie>
To:        dg@root.com, rotel@indigo.ie
Cc:        "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, dima@best.net, abc@ralph.ml.org, tqbf@secnet.com
Subject:   Re: bsd securelevel patch question
Message-ID:  <199807021526.QAA02205@indigo.ie>
In-Reply-To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> "Re: bsd securelevel patch question" (Jul  2,  7:10am)

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On Jul 2,  7:10am, David Greenman wrote:
} Subject: Re: bsd securelevel patch question
> 
>    Well, one thing that is wrong with this is that it is slow. I sure wouldn't
> want my busy WWW server doing this for every connection that is made.

It would only be necessary to do this for binds to ports < 1024.  So it
would just be checked every time a daemon started.

Niall

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Niall Smart.        PGP: finger njs3@motmot.doc.ic.ac.uk
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