From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jul 4 04:43:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA23552 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 04:43:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns0.fast.net.uk (ns0.fast.net.uk [194.207.104.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA23544 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 04:42:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netadmin@fastnet.co.uk) Received: from smack.my.bitch.up.fast.net.uk (ssmack.smack.smack.smack.smack.smack.smack.smack.smack.smack.fast.net.uk [194.207.104.143]) by ns0.fast.net.uk (8.9.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA03065 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 12:42:29 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smack.my.bitch.up.fast.net.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00853 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 12:32:10 GMT (envelope-from netadmin@fastnet.co.uk) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 12:31:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Jay Tribick X-Sender: netadmin@smack.my.bitch.up.fast.net.uk To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Increasing security by decreasing installed programs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all.. I think we all need to look closely at the default-installed suid/sgid programs. Why, by default, does FreeBSD install uucp*? There's not /that/ many people who use it and it would be much better as an optional components, especially as it runs suid/sgid. Why not make the installation program let you select defaultly installed suid binaries individually (instead of just selecting the basic distribution, let us go one level down and select individual basic packages)? Regards, Jay Tribick [| Network Administrator | FastNet International | http://fast.net.uk/ |] [| PGPv5 RSA Key Available [2047bit] | Finger netadmin@fastnet.co.uk |] [| T: +44 (0)1273 677633 F: +44 (0)1273 621631 e: netadmin@fast.net.uk |] [| ----={ PGPv5 Fingerprint := FA690E7762F0E62F38C6052CC387FFF3 }=---- |] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message