From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 15 4:33:23 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03BF137B406; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:33:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 15 Aug 2001 12:33:16 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:33:15 +0100 From: David Malone To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: rwatson@FreeBSD.org, alex@big.endian.de, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <20010815123315.A35365@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200108150333.f7F3XI515343@aldan.algebra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108150333.f7F3XI515343@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:33:17PM -0400 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:33:17PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > On 14 Aug, Robert Watson wrote: > > All of these programs do involve risk, syslogd possibly a fair amount > > less so, and I'd be open to discussing how to disable them but > > minimize impact from an administrative standpoint. > > BTW, how hard is it to make syslogd run as nobody? Perhaps, > nobody:operator? Does it have to be root? It could possibly change to another uid after it had made it's sockets (port 514 and /var/run/log), connected to /dev/klog and opened all the log files. It would have to change back again if you HUPed it though. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message