From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 7 18:58:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id AD14737C184; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:58:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5402E815B; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:58:21 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Igor Roshchin , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named started by any user will be running until killed... In-Reply-To: <200003070438.UAA50858@apollo.backplane.com> 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 Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Trying to do something more complex, like using jail or messing with > program owner/group/permissions is going to mostly be a waste of time. > If you are truely concerned you can chmod 750 and group-restrict > the directories (/sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/sbin). Personally I > don't think it's worth the effort.... remember that every change you > make to the base system is a change you have to remember to redo when > you upgrade. And it still doesn't prevent them downloading or compiling their own binary. Doing *that* is harder again. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message