Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 11:19:29 -0700 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@sftw.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rexec as root Message-ID: <391C4B31.4B1DB762@sftw.com> References: <391C12B5.E5A2DCD3@quack.kfu.com> <200005121731.LAA12588@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > [...] In the absense of this > test, machines in a yp netowrk would be extremely vulnerable to root > uid penetration when an intruder can hack the yp database, or spoof > replies. Ok. How about adding an rexecd command line flag to disable that test (with suitable warnings in the man page)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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