Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 12:57:43 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kmem, tty, bind security enhancements commit. Message-ID: <199812012057.MAA10204@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199812010551.VAA02953@apollo.backplane.com> <19981201195028.A21015@follo.net>
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:> Now that everyone is backfrom thanksgiving and 2.2.8 is out the
:> door, I'd like to commit the following changes to -current. These
:> are as previously discussed and the changes have also been running
:> on most of BEST's machines for a couple of weeks now so I'd like
:> to commit them.
:>
:> I'd like someone to sign off on the concept. Eivind? Bruce? Jordan?
:
:[on running identd as kmem, ntalkd as tty, and bind as bind/bind]
:
:Sounds good to me, as long as it does not require changes to existing
:installations (which I couldn't see it needing from your description). I'm
:somewhat surprised at the getuid() test in ntalkd being there at all - it
:...
Excellent. I'll commit it in. I don't expect it will have any effect
on pre-existing systems since most people customize their
passwd/group/inetd.conf files rather then sync them from /usr/src/etc
-Matt
:Eivind.
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