From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 8 23:18:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17711 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:18:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kithrup.com (kithrup.com [205.179.156.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17706 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:18:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sef@kithrup.com) Received: (from sef@localhost) by kithrup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10270; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:18:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sef) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:18:39 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Eric Fagan Message-Id: <199902090718.XAA10270@kithrup.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ In-Reply-To: <19990209091330.18608.qmail.kithrup.freebsd.current@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <199902090639.WAA08295@kithrup.com> from Sean Eric Fagan at "Feb 8, 1999 10:39:29 pm" Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19990209091330.18608.qmail.kithrup.freebsd.current@rucus.ru.ac.za> you write: >I would still >be very reticent to see BPF in a generic kernel because of the security >implications. I'm sorry, but that's a complete non-issue: 1. /dev/bpf0 is mode 400, root.wheel -- to read it, you need to break root. 2. If you can break root, you can rebuild a kernel with BPF *anyway*. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message