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Date:      Wed, 02 Jun 1999 08:54:36 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        adrian@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shell Account system 
Message-ID:  <24211.928306476@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jun 1999 13:47:23 %2B0800." <19990602054724.12309.qmail@ewok.creative.net.au> 

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In message <19990602054724.12309.qmail@ewok.creative.net.au>, adrian@FreeBSD.OR

>The worst thing in the world you can ever do is allow users to compile/run
>their own binaries. If a user wants something installed, then I'll damn
>well compile it and install it for *all* to use.

Go into the kernel, modify it so only suser() can set a execute bit.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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