Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:13:52 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Files checked in: lpr/lpd Message-ID: <E0vHLfc-0004fE-00@rover.village.org>
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I've merged the OpenBSD changes to lpr/lpd into the FreeBSD code base. Since OpenBSD is based on NetBSD, I assume there are a number of changes in the base NetBSD code that haven't been ported to FreeBSD. Specifically, NetBSD has made lpr/lpd run as root only as needed (OpenBSD seems to change this a little in places, for the better I think). I'd like to bring those changes in at some point, since it seems that things will be a little more secure in that case (but it won't help overflow attacks, because seteuid would still work in the overflow code, right? :-(. Does anybody know the NetBSD changes well enough to comment on them? There are also a couple more overflow paranoia changes that were checked into OpenBSD this weekend that I'll fold in shortly as well. Please let me know if there are problems. My printing world is sane and has handled what I've thrown at it, but like I've said before, I don't do much with it. Warner
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