From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 28 19:12:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from wrath.cs.utah.edu (wrath.cs.utah.edu [155.99.198.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0529537B419; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 19:12:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from famine.cs.utah.edu (famine.cs.utah.edu [155.99.198.114]) by wrath.cs.utah.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2T3CXX06185; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:12:33 -0700 (MST) Received: by famine.cs.utah.edu (Postfix, from userid 2146) id 9EA7623A7A; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:12:33 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:12:33 -0700 From: "David G . Andersen" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: "Crist J. Clark" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world and setuid bits Message-ID: <20020328201233.A31300@cs.utah.edu> References: <20020328121850.D97841@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020328161518.R5333-100000@walter> <20020328174304.L97841@blossom.cjclark.org> <200203290255.g2T2tqi09556@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200203290255.g2T2tqi09556@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:55:52PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Garrett Wollman just mooed: > > > passwd(1), at(1), crontab(1), login(1), su(1), some or most of those > > would be required for almost any multiuser installation. > > Actually, only passwd is required for most users. People who are not > administrators have no need for at, crontab, or su, and the only > process which normally runs login is getty. People who are not administrators or clueful have no need for at or crontab. They're exceptionally handy for even mere users, particularly when said users are geeks. Keeping network measurements alive, rotating your web guestbook, etc. -Dave -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message