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Date:      Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:43:52 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Thomas H. Ptacek" <tqbf@enteract.com>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au, tqbf@enteract.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Privileged ports...
Message-ID:  <199703261843.MAA27813@enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <199703261441.GAA12899@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Mar 26, 97 06:41:11 am

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>    None that I can think of if I understand you correctly. The thing you
> want to prevent is regular users being able to bind to a privileged port.

Mr. Greenman, I know I'm being repetative here, but I'd like to re-assert
that the patch I posted does not allow regular users to bind to a
privileged port, nor have I ever suggested that regular users be granted
the ability to bind to a privileged port.

>    It would be nice if FreeBSD had account privileges ala VMS. You could then
> have fine grain control over what 'privileged' programs can do, thus limiting

I have some more patches to post. Let's see how they do in OpenBSD first. 

I don't think the problem is as complicated as it seems.

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Thomas Ptacek at EnterAct, L.L.C., Chicago, IL [tqbf@enteract.com]
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"If you're so special, why aren't you dead?"




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