Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:44:03 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? Message-ID: <19981117074403.B11602@internal> In-Reply-To: <199811161849.LAA05146@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:49:27AM -0700 References: <19981116125909.A28486@internal> <19981116072937.E969@internal> <19981115192224.A29686@internal> <19981115161548.A23869@internal> <199811151758.JAA15108@apollo.backplane.com> <19981115192224.A29686@internal> <199811152210.PAA01604@harmony.vil
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On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <19981116125909.A28486@internal> Andre Albsmeier writes: > : That is exactly my opinion. I think a program should run with the > : minimum privileges it really needs to and not more. > > I still think that it is a lot of effort for just one or two > programs. xlock and xlockmore (basically the same program) are the > only two programs that I'm aware of that need to access the password > file and not change the uid of the process. Where are the rest of the > half dozen :-)... Well, I didn't talk about half dozen but taking Matt's suggestions we are close to it. > > Warner -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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