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Date:      Sun, 1 Nov 1998 22:47:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
To:        jkb@best.com (Jan B. Koum )
Cc:        dima@best.net, peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, winter@jurai.net
Subject:   Re: SSH vsprintf patch. (You've been warned Mr. Glass)
Message-ID:  <199811020647.WAA25893@burka.rdy.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981101213817.A11911@best.com> from "Jan B. Koum " at "Nov 1, 1998  9:38:17 pm"

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Jan B. Koum  writes:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 09:13:36PM -0800, Dima Ruban <dima@best.net> wrote:
> > Jan B. Koum  writes:
> > > 	Which is why when you install ssh, you can run ./configure with 
> > > 	"--disable-suid-ssh" argument.
> > 
> > Which will introduce tonns of other problems.
> 
> 	Such as?
> 
> 	I have been using ssh this way for about a year and haven't
> 	seen any. Then again - I am not doing anything fancy with ssh.
> 	And no, I don't need to have ssh installed suid just to get
> 	.rhost type authentication.

Let me ask you this. Would you trust a packet that came from non-priviledged
port and which wants to do something that even remotely should be secure?

> 
> -- Yan
> 

-- dima

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