From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 21 09:45:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA25462 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25450 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA11121; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610211633.JAA11121@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Jon Ribbens Cc: tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: setuid, core dumps, ftpd, and DB Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:33:00 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:21:37 +0100 (BST) Jon Ribbens wrote: > Well, yes, I know that, and I've done the second option. But there's > bound to be a lot of people using 1.1 for a long time yet. True, but they're going to have to modify _something_, and modifying the kernel is much more complete than modifying one program. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939