From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 22:09:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA28244 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:09:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@haiti-88.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28206 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:09:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA04406; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:10:45 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:10:44 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Studded cc: mgraffam@mhv.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc 2.8.0 In-Reply-To: <34EA77DE.37AC0663@san.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Studded wrote: > mgraffam@mhv.net wrote: > > > I agree that limited access to the C compiler helps improve the security > > of the system, but you must remember that you are using PC's with a > > free OS. > > You make a lot of good points, none of which I'm disputing. However I > am firmly of the opinion however that part of security is making things > as difficult as possible for the boneheads. Obviously there's a lot more > to it than deleting gcc. :) But most of the boneheads don't really want to compile stuff themselves. I honestly think that security through such obscurity isn't too great. However, one could always try hacking up a shell,etc, etc. that only let a user run certian programs. However, then there's still programs that let you run other programs, etc, etc.. - alex A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message