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Date:      Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:36:46 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Ben Laurie <benl@freebsd.org>, Mark, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d
Message-ID:  <20120915003646.623436ea@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:15:03 -0700
Arthur Mesh wrote:


> Has it been considered that /dev/random being "rw-rw-rw-" may be a bad
> idea? What's the benefit of allowing unprivileged users reseeding
> yarrow? Perhaps restricting it to "rw-r--r--" is a part of the
> solution that may address potential system overwhelm by unprivileged
> users?

As currently implemented it's completely harmless. 



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