From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 2 09:02:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17590 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:02:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA17409 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA24882; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807021600.JAA24882@implode.root.com> To: rotel@indigo.ie cc: "Allen Smith" , security@FreeBSD.ORG, njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, dima@best.net, abc@ralph.ml.org, tqbf@secnet.com Subject: Re: bsd securelevel patch question In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 16:26:16 -0000." <199807021526.QAA02205@indigo.ie> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:00:56 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message