Date: 17 Jul 2000 06:50:31 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre%no-spam@citeweb.net> To: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature Message-ID: <og3xxsvc.fsf@pc166.gits.fr> In-Reply-To: Christopher Masto's message of "Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:31:10 -0400" References: <200007142139.RAA88779@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <v0421010db59547b0a7e1@[128.113.24.47]> <200007150409.AAA32685@whizzo.transsys.com> <v04210113b597aec12e89@[128.113.24.47]> <20000716164658.A25557@netmonger.net> <200007170015.UAA00415@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000716223110.A11344@netmonger.net>
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Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> writes: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 08:15:05PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:46:58 -0400, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> said: > > > > > Huh? Security through ignorance? > > > > Remember that `lpr' is setuid-root and uses a ``privileged'' port for > > its communications. Many sites may still be using trusted-host > > ``authentication'' internally, and LPRng's ``feature'' may enable a > > compromise of some such service. (Got enough scare quotes there?) > > That is indeed something I failed to consider. I suppose it would be > necessary to have some control over that feature in some environments. > I just find it incredibly convenient to be able to install LPRng on > a bunch of client machines and just rm /etc/printcap, set $PRINTER, > and be done with it. as I remeber me, the same thing is possible under newer Solaris boxes. Cyrille. -- home:mailto:clefevre%no-spam@citeweb.net Supprimer "%no-spam" pour me repondre. work:mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre%no-spam@edf.fr Remove "%no-spam" to answer me back. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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