From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 29 07:21:34 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA22401 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 07:21:34 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA22395 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 07:21:30 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA05964; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:21:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:21:26 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9511291521.AA05964@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Port/package of WorkMan-1.3 now available! In-Reply-To: <199511290132.RAA27616@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> References: <9511281616.AA03607@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199511290132.RAA27616@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < * No program should run with the identity of `bin'. > Ok, suid-root then. That's just as bad. > What's the policy for programs updating /var/run/*.pid, by the way? > Is it reasonable to have a port suid-root so that it can write there? If it's not something that is intended to be run by root AND root ONLY, it has no business writing something into /var/run. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant