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Date:      Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:51:27 +1000 (EST)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        rotel@indigo.ie
Cc:        easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu, dg@root.com, 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:  <199807021752.KAA05020@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199807021331.OAA00656@indigo.ie> from "Niall Smart" at Jul 2, 98 02:31:18 pm

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In some mail from Niall Smart, sie said:
> 
> Whats wrong with a /dev/socket/tcp/XYZ acl type scheme?  If the
> process has permission to read /dev/socket/tcp/83 then they can
> bind to port 83, you could make it a procfs type filesystem so all
> the ACL information was in memory for speed.  Then you've got to
> save/restore state though.

you already have /dev/socket/tcp/XYZ using portals.

why reinvent that wheel again ?

you (and others) seem very keen on doing this.  maybe you should do
some more research about what's around now before taking this much
further.

darren

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