From owner-freebsd-audit Fri Mar 15 6:30: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AE237B402; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 06:29:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 12ED85346; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:29:53 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preventing chpass(1) DoS References: <20020315042007.K29705@blossom.cjclark.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 15 Mar 2002 15:29:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020315042007.K29705@blossom.cjclark.org> Message-ID: Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J. Clark" writes: > I should note that a cursory look at NetBSD and OpenBSD shows they > both do not lock while the user is editing. How about using their code rather than roll our own? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message