Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 02:49:07 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: ache@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/comms/kermit/patches patch-ab Message-ID: <199612111049.CAA24119@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:41:11 %2B0100." <199612110941.KAA05572@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Sorry, but we're internally self-inconsistent. pst@precipice$ ls -l /usr/bin/cu -r-sr-sr-x 1 uucp dialer 110592 Dec 7 23:19 /usr/bin/cu From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/comms/kermit/patches patch-ab As Paul Traina wrote: > That's not a security hole. If you don't like the behavior, just don't > setgid dialer the program. The latter should be the default, to be consistent with the other programs FreeBSD is shipping. I.e., a sysadmin should be abler to `rely' (sorta) that only members of group dialer will be able to touch the modem ports. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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