From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 7:39:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E6137B4EC for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 07:39:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14Ncrx-000DAU-00; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:38:57 +0000 To: Pater Pandoson , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: perl Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:38:57 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.25.251 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > WHat harm will they do, pray ? > > If the rest of your system is secure..perl is just another > > computer language :) > > Hmm better safe than sorry. Who knows what might go > bump in the nite. Well, I think this is the wrong way of going about it. On a system setup properly no user can damage stuff by using perl, the only person he/she can shoot in the foot is him/her self. I think denying access to stuff is a security cop-out, for the simple reason that it will encourage deviant behaviour amongst the so-inclined, and it won't stop a determined person anyway (they can always install their own copy of it !). Look at permissions, firewalls, ownerships, not at language or other tools. Well, it's your system. Just my thoughts.. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message