From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 30 14:21:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-c.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.183.3.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B422A37B66E for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 14:21:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23945 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Sep 2000 21:22:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Sep 2000 21:22:46 -0000 Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 16:22:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Warner Losh , Jordan Hubbard , Roman Shterenzon , Kris Kennaway , security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/pine4 Makefile (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200009301842.e8UIgA543368@green.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > That is, one can create their own jail (or just chroot(8)... I should > probably get user-chrooting reviewed ;) which they would use for running > potentially evil things -- like reading e-mail with pine. It's not too > difficult, but it's really easier just to switch to a better MUA. user-chrooting would be excellent. Chrooting MUAs / web browsers / etc would be a nice feature no matter how secure the program in question seems to be. If you get it implemented, I'll be the first to use the feature. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message