From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 18 01:53:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA09683 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:53:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw-nl1.philips.com (gw-nl1.philips.com [192.68.44.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09678 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:53:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com) Received: from smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (localhost.philips.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-nl1.philips.com with ESMTP id KAA20585 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:52:35 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com) Received: from smtprelay-eur1.philips.com(130.139.36.3) by gw-nl1.philips.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma020582; Wed, 18 Nov 98 10:52:35 +0100 Received: from hal.mpn.cp.philips.com (hal.mpn.cp.philips.com [130.139.64.195]) by smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (8.8.5/8.6.10-1.2.2m-970826) with SMTP id KAA24768 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:52:34 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 5485 invoked by uid 666); 18 Nov 1998 09:52:55 -0000 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:52:55 +0100 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? Message-ID: <19981118105255.A3308@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> References: <199811161838.MAA25024@s07.sa.fedex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.10i In-Reply-To: <199811161838.MAA25024@s07.sa.fedex.com>; from William McVey on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 12:38:11PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 12:38:11PM -0600, William McVey wrote: > For years xterm has had support for ptyd, a small daemon program > written by Kevin Braunsdorf which would hand out ptys in a secure > fashion. It can be found at: ftp://ftp.physics.purdue.edu/pundits/ Also, there's ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/ptyget-0.50.tar.gz, which serves a similar purpose. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/ _/ _/ Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message