From owner-freebsd-security Sat Apr 18 07:25:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17164 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 07:25:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17158 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:25:53 GMT (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA09371; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:25:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id JAA15862; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:25:25 -0500 (CDT) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Brian Handy , "Matthew N. Dodd" , Matthew Hunt , dima@best.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel permissions References: <14147.892853744@time.cdrom.com> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 18 Apr 1998 09:25:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:55:44 -0700" Message-ID: <87iuo7ky0a.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > [Can we get this thread the ^&%@!$#!! out of -stable now please?] > > > Yep, and I maintain that for 99% of us, this was a *HUGE* step backwards. > > What would you have done instead? Add a question to the system installation procedure that asks whether login based restrictions should be employed. Explain that this is useful for multi-user sites mostly, and can be configured with the login.conf file. If this is a mostly a single user machine, or you are not concerned with others hogging resources, then choose "NO" now. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message