Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:03:04 +0100 (MET) From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAE.nl> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? Message-ID: <199811161203.NAA21406@surf.IAE.nl> In-Reply-To: <199811161055.CAA18393@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Nov 16, 98 02:55:14 am"
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You ( Matthew Dillon ) write: => I wonder how many other programs can be trivially fixed like that. => Certainly sendmail does not need to be run as root, yet it is in => /usr/src/etc/rc. lpd ? Why in gods name does lpd need to be run => as root? lpd (and friends) have a replacement: LPRng. Which runs as GID daemon, and has a lot of nice other features. Next to the fact that it is a maintained product. --WjW -- Internet Access Eindhoven BV., voice: +31-40-2 393 393, data: +31-40-2 606 606 P.O. 928, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands Full Internet connectivity for only fl 12.95 a month. Call now, and login as 'new'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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