Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:37:16 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service Message-ID: <20010316213716.D20830@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103161922120.9463-100000@husten.security.at12.de>; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:34:22PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103160832130.17245-100000@mars.entic.net> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103161922120.9463-100000@husten.security.at12.de>
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 19:34 +0100, Paul Herman wrote:
>
> To bad a setusercontext() call couldn't be easily implimented
> inside of set[e]uid() (it's in -lutil not -lc). I see too many
> FreeBSD admins that believe that their proftpds and qmails are
> protected by the limits set in /etc/login.conf.
Well, the latter is recommended to be wrapped up in a
softlimit(1) invocation. And the former - as well as any other
program - could be treated the same.
If login.conf isn't easily applied one is still free to make use
of ports/sysutils/daemontools.
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