Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:39:20 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much security should ldconfig enforce? Message-ID: <20000727083920.A9036@hamlet.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <20000727145247.A46416@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:52:47PM %2B0200 References: <XFMail.000726193613.jdp@polstra.com> <20000727075027.C8974@hamlet.nectar.com> <20000727145247.A46416@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:52:47PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > I like this option, but the knob should be compile-time, IMHO. > > Why? > > You expect someone to check out sources and recompile the program to > make it secure when you can instead use a command line option? No, I expect by default that it be built in secure mode. I expect that if someone wants to shoot herself in the foot, she can twiddle make.conf and rebuild from source to disable this option. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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