From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 2 08:31:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10012 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:31:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indigo.ie (nsmart@ts01-55.waterford.indigo.ie [194.125.139.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09957 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:31:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (from nsmart@localhost) by indigo.ie (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA02205; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:26:17 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) From: Niall Smart Message-Id: <199807021526.QAA02205@indigo.ie> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:26:16 +0000 In-Reply-To: David Greenman "Re: bsd securelevel patch question" (Jul 2, 7:10am) Reply-To: rotel@indigo.ie X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: dg@root.com, rotel@indigo.ie Subject: Re: bsd securelevel patch question Cc: "Allen Smith" , security@FreeBSD.ORG, njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, dima@best.net, abc@ralph.ml.org, tqbf@secnet.com Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Niall Smart. PGP: finger njs3@motmot.doc.ic.ac.uk FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations: www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message