Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:00:56 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: rotel@indigo.ie Cc: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, dima@best.net, abc@ralph.ml.org, tqbf@secnet.com Subject: Re: bsd securelevel patch question Message-ID: <199807021600.JAA24882@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 16:26:16 -0000." <199807021526.QAA02205@indigo.ie>
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>On Jul 2, 7:10am, David Greenman wrote: >} Subject: Re: bsd securelevel patch question >> >> Well, one thing that is wrong with this is that it is slow. I sure wouldn't >> want my busy WWW server doing this for every connection that is made. > >It would only be necessary to do this for binds to ports < 1024. So it >would just be checked every time a daemon started. Um, well, let's talk about FTP servers, then, since those do a privileged bind() for every data connection that is estabilished (one per file transfer). -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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