Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:17:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de> Cc: audit@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: why does telnetd run as root? Message-ID: <200108301817.f7UIHNa66577@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010830201102.O69247@ida.interface-business.de> References: <20010830201102.O69247@ida.interface-business.de>
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<<On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:11:02 +0200, Joerg Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> said: > But then, it's IMHO much safer to run telnetd as user > `daemon', and have login(1) allow user daemon to pass -h. Only works for cleartext password authentication. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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