Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:33:28 +0000 From: j.e.drews@att.net To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should gcc be accessable by others? Message-ID: <061620041833.5687.40D09278000A93160000163721587667559C990A9D0BD20AD206@att.net>
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Thanks Chuck: For the info; I will search on that term. -------------- Original message from Chuck Swiger : -------------- > Anyway, the notion you are looking for is known as "hardening a system", and a > search on that term will probably give you more insight. Basicly, just > changing perms on gcc isn't really enough, but if you take draconian measures > to remove all programs that aren't needed, you can get a minimal system that > is much harder to exploit. Such a system wouldn't be very useable to normal > humans, however, so this is generally done only for firewalls and the like. > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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