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Date:      Wed, 1 May 2002 22:22:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: deperlifying sockstat(1)
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020501222055.21461D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020501221605.21461B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Wed, 1 May 2002, Robert Watson wrote:

> I'd love it if neither netstat nor sockstat required privilege to run,
> and could extract it all from sysctl.  If you do that, make sure you
> call appropriate socket visibility hooks in the sysctl export so that it
> DTRT for jail, MAC, etc.  Eliminating setgid kmem even more will
> continue to markedly improve the security of FreeBSD 5.0...  I tweaked a
> couple out, and Thomas Moestl did a large chunk of the remainder, but
> there are still some that are left.  In particular fixing systat would
> be highly desirable, as it does a fair amount of I/O. 

FWIW, reviewing the binaries on my system, systat is no longer setgid.
Thomas got it already.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services


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