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Date:      Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:41:11 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
Cc:        ache@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/comms/kermit/patches patch-ab
Message-ID:  <199612110941.KAA05572@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612110857.AAA23163@precipice.shockwave.com> from Paul Traina at "Dec 11, 96 00:57:35 am"

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As Paul Traina wrote:

> That's not a security hole.  If you don't like the behavior, just don't
> setgid dialer the program.

The latter should be the default, to be consistent with the other
programs FreeBSD is shipping.  I.e., a sysadmin should be abler to
`rely' (sorta) that only members of group dialer will be able to touch
the modem ports.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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