From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 7:47:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eCoNeed.com (unknown [147.252.134.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45F3837B67D for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 07:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from eCoNeed.com (localhost.kst.dit.ie [127.0.0.1]) by eCoNeed.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0UFln836162 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:47:49 GMT (envelope-from ppandoson@eCoNeed.com) Message-ID: <3A76E225.A40C8A3@eCoNeed.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:47:49 +0000 From: Pater Pandoson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: perl References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > > > WHat harm will they do, pray ? > > > If the rest of your system is secure..perl is just another > > > computer language :) > > > > Hmm better safe than sorry. Who knows what might go > > bump in the nite. > > Well, I think this is the wrong way of going about it. > On a system setup properly no user can damage stuff by using > perl, the only person he/she can shoot in the foot is him/her self. > I think denying access to stuff is a security cop-out, for the > simple reason that it will encourage deviant behaviour amongst the > so-inclined, and it won't stop a determined person anyway (they > can always install their own copy of it !). > > Look at permissions, firewalls, ownerships, not at language or other > tools. > Well, it's your system. Just my thoughts.. > > Cliff > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Who says that uses have access to a partition capable of executing binaries? And if there is a "security cop-out" I will gladly take it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message