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Subject: Re: syslogd(8) Dropping Privs
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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> We haven't had many syslogd(8) vulnerabilities lately, but one
> less daemon running as root seems like a Good Thing. I do not
> see any drawbacks from a security point of view.
I agree there, the less, the better :)

~Neo-Vortex