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Date:      Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:00:56 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        rotel@indigo.ie
Cc:        "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, dima@best.net, abc@ralph.ml.org, tqbf@secnet.com
Subject:   Re: bsd securelevel patch question 
Message-ID:  <199807021600.JAA24882@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 16:26:16 -0000." <199807021526.QAA02205@indigo.ie> 

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>On Jul 2,  7:10am, David Greenman wrote:
>} Subject: Re: bsd securelevel patch question
>> 
>>    Well, one thing that is wrong with this is that it is slow. I sure wouldn't
>> want my busy WWW server doing this for every connection that is made.
>
>It would only be necessary to do this for binds to ports < 1024.  So it
>would just be checked every time a daemon started.

   Um, well, let's talk about FTP servers, then, since those do a privileged
bind() for every data connection that is estabilished (one per file transfer).

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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