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Date:      Fri, 12 May 2000 13:19:07 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        nsayer@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rexec as root 
Message-ID:  <200005121919.NAA13182@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 2000 11:19:29 PDT." <391C4B31.4B1DB762@sftw.com> 
References:  <391C4B31.4B1DB762@sftw.com>  <391C12B5.E5A2DCD3@quack.kfu.com> <200005121731.LAA12588@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <391C4B31.4B1DB762@sftw.com> Nick Sayer writes:
: Warner Losh wrote:
: 
: > [...] In the absense of this
: > test, machines in a yp netowrk would be extremely vulnerable to root
: > uid penetration when an intruder can hack the yp database, or spoof
: > replies.
: 
: Ok. How about adding an rexecd command line flag to disable
: that test (with suitable warnings in the man page)?

I'd be all for a "make this insanely insecure protocol even more
insecure because security doesn't matter to my setup" flag.  So long
as it isn't default :-)

Warner



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