From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 13:50:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA02717 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA02709 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA07846 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:50:39 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA04084; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:04:49 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970416220449.IN13949@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:04:49 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... References: <199704120213.MAA10732@topaz.nemeton.com.au> <19970416125329.34879@usn.blaze.net.au> <33553AE7.23FD@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <33553AE7.23FD@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>; from Pedro Giffuni on Apr 16, 1997 13:47:35 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Pedro Giffuni wrote: > I also insist that changing the default user can bring further security > benefits. # default UID (can be username or userid:groupid) O DefaultUser=1:1 That's daemon:daemon, this is a fairly low privileged user. -- 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. ;-)