Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:21:26 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@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! Message-ID: <9511291521.AA05964@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199511290132.RAA27616@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> References: <9511281616.AA03607@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199511290132.RAA27616@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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<<On Tue, 28 Nov 1995 17:32:27 -0800, asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) said: > * 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
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