From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 29 14:56:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-66.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7184C37B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 14:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 85D7C671A4; Tue, 29 May 2001 14:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:56:09 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Vivek Khera Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding "noschg" to ssh and friends Message-ID: <20010529145609.A1209@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <15124.4635.887375.682204@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15124.4635.887375.682204@onceler.kciLink.com>; from khera@kcilink.com on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:18:19PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:18:19PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > Given some recent security issues with older versions of ssh, and that > some attacks involve replacing the ssh binary on compromized systems > to capture additional passwords, wouldn't it be prudent to mark the > ssh related binaries as schg? The rsh related ones already are so > marked, and it just seems to follow to me that ssh related binaries > should as well. No; schg isn't a security feature, at best it's an anti-foot-shooting feature to prevent accidental trashing of the file. Kris --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7FBr5Wry0BWjoQKURAr/BAJ9GXOQmC83nI/ktKGSyefAhMOMC3gCcCCN4 ZlP6gGQpZknmbgfapfqrGn0= =nKfc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message