From owner-freebsd-security Fri Apr 17 12:06:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03594 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:06:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shamash.org (shamash.org [207.240.86.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA03499 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:06:24 GMT (envelope-from k@yt.to) Received: (qmail 17112 invoked from network); 17 Apr 1998 19:05:50 -0000 Received: from ren.camb.opengroup.org (130.105.3.129) by yt.to with SMTP; 17 Apr 1998 19:05:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 10012 invoked by uid 12573); 17 Apr 1998 19:04:53 -0000 Message-ID: <19980417150453.H3352@yt.to> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:04:53 -0400 From: Louis Theran To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel permissions Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19980417005408.08278@mph124.rh.psu.edu> <19980417144046.41055@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91i In-Reply-To: <19980417144046.41055@mph124.rh.psu.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 02:40:46PM -0400 X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 02:40:46PM -0400, Matthew Hunt wrote: > Yes, that's exactly it. I do not agree with hiding information > unnecessarily. The belief that this change improves security seems > like a "security by obscurity" approach. While security by obscurity by itself is not too useful, as long as it does not pervent real security measures from being used, it generally does not hurt. ^L -- Louis Theran -- Carjacker on the Information Superhighway "Te occidere possunt, sed te edere non possunt nefas quo est." PGP welcome; key at: k-pgpkey@yt.to To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message