Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:52:04 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: <JonMS2010@aol.com>, <res02jw5@gte.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Security Problem Message-ID: <008901c07527$c68a4a60$837e03cb@dougy> References: <62.aa1e4b9.2783dd01@aol.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] There's not much that doesn't have a security hole .... whether known ones or ones yet to be discovered. The thing I like about sudo is that it helps control access to who can do what. The solution for people that paranoid about security could well be to lock the mission critical machine down well & run services requiring shell access by users on a different (and ideally less "mission critical") machine ----- Original Message ----- From: JonMS2010@aol.com To: dougy@bryden.apana.org.au ; res02jw5@gte.net ; questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Security Problem Sudo has several issues security-wise, many of which are FreeBSD related. However, I will keep this e-mail in my box and will send more information about the security holes, etc. in it when I find some suitable URL's. -- Jonathan M. Slivko -- Jonathan M. Slivko <JonMS2010@AOL.COM> Website: http://hometown.aol.com/JonMS2010 FreeBSD -- The Power To Serve! "Microsoft? Is that some kind of toilet paper?" -- [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There's not much that doesn't have a security hole .... whether known ones or ones yet to</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>be discovered. The thing I like about sudo is that it helps control access to who can do</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>what. The solution for people that paranoid about security could well be to lock the mission</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>critical machine down well & run services requiring shell access by users on a different (and </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ideally less "mission critical") machine</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=JonMS2010@aol.com href="mailto:JonMS2010@aol.com">JonMS2010@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dougy@bryden.apana.org.au href="mailto:dougy@bryden.apana.org.au">dougy@bryden.apana.org.au</A> ; <A title=res02jw5@gte.net href="mailto:res02jw5@gte.net">res02jw5@gte.net</A> ; <A title=questions@FreeBSD.ORG href="mailto:questions@FreeBSD.ORG">questions@FreeBSD.ORG</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:40 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Security Problem</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Tahoma size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Sudo has several issues security-wise, many of which are FreeBSD related. <BR>However, I will keep this e-mail in my box and will send more information <BR>about the security holes, etc. in it when I find some suitable URL's. -- <BR>Jonathan M. Slivko <BR><BR>-- <BR>Jonathan M. Slivko <<A href="mailto:JonMS2010@AOL.COM">JonMS2010@AOL.COM</A>> <BR>Website: <A href="http://hometown.aol.com/JonMS2010">http://hometown.aol.com/JonMS2010</A>; <BR>FreeBSD -- The Power To Serve! <BR><BR>"Microsoft? Is that some kind of toilet paper?" <BR>--</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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