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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:43:52 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:58.lpd
Message-ID:  <p05101004b7b55f3e9703@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20010830184533.C27546@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20010830153246.K69164-100000@mail.wlcg.com> <p05101002b7b44cbd3f34@[128.113.24.47]> <20010830142340.A15795@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <p05101003b7b46478cf15@[128.113.24.47]> <20010830184533.C27546@xor.obsecurity.org>

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At 6:45 PM -0700 8/30/01, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 30, 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>>  [actually, I almost think that lpd should default to "secure"
>  > operation, and require someone to specify some startup flag if
>  > they DO want to accept remote print jobs, but that is probably
>  > too dramatic of a change.  I also don't know how these flags
>  > would interact with the popular alternatives to the standard
>  > lpr/lpd, such as lprNG...]
>
>I think that would be a reasonable thing to do at least in 5.0.

Hmm.  Well, let me think about it a bit more, and see if any
other alternatives come to mind.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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