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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:21:26 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Port/package of WorkMan-1.3 now available!
Message-ID:  <9511291521.AA05964@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199511290132.RAA27616@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References:  <9511281616.AA03607@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199511290132.RAA27616@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU>

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<<On Tue, 28 Nov 1995 17:32:27 -0800, asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) said:

>  * No program should run with the identity of `bin'.
> Ok, suid-root then.

That's just as bad.

> What's the policy for programs updating /var/run/*.pid, by the way?
> Is it reasonable to have a port suid-root so that it can write there?

If it's not something that is intended to be run by root AND root
ONLY, it has no business writing something into /var/run.

-GAWollman

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