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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2000 20:12:51 -0700
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Needed: suid library calls (was Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh  sshd_config)
Message-ID:  <392C9A33.1050EE03@quack.kfu.com>
References:  <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> <20000524090528.ECF641CE1@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20000524022840.C79861@freebsd.org> <200005241446.KAA60257@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000524075921.A53829@freebsd.org> <200005241709.NAA60822@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000524105558.A3407@freebsd.org> <200005241853.OAA61188@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <392C3E40.E0D8974D@vangelderen.org> <392C60F1.91EDC30D@sftw.com> <200005250211.TAA78261@apollo.backplane.com>

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Matthew Dillon wrote:
  [lost attribution. Nick wrote this]
> :
> :What we _really_ need is some mechanism to recognize the difference
> :between a user program and a system library, with an eye towards
> :granting privileges to trusted libraries without letting those privileges
> :leak past the library in question.
> 
>     Oh god, its MULTICS!  Run! Run! Run for the hills!

See? Final proof that those who don't know history are bound
to repeat it. :-)


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