From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 1 17:10:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-80.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5EC37B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:10:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 72B3766D16; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:10:47 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Brian Somers Cc: Bart Matthaei , Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: RELEASE 4.3 -> RELENG_4_3: SUCCESSFULLY but ... Message-ID: <20010801171046.A85330@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200108020005.f7205A811423@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108020005.f7205A811423@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:05:10AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:05:10AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > This just blows my mind. Not only because I can't see (for example) why= =20 > rsh has schg and rshd does not, but also because It makes no sense as a security measure. It makes more sense as an anti-foot-shooting measure, to prevent accidental removal of critical binaries which are needed to get the system up and minimally running (init, /kernel, etc). Of course, that argument only works for some on that list, and the rest should probably have the flag removed. Kris --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7aJqGWry0BWjoQKURAvS0AKCSRLvtlbUFdEIOzOgWwY61du1kbgCfSPkw mkovT2sV3CG5tnrUBmubvJI= =2gSX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message