Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:40:38 +0100 (MET) From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAE.nl> To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: wjw@IAEhv.nl, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? Message-ID: <199811161240.NAA15355@surf.IAE.nl> In-Reply-To: <19981116133646.43640@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Nov 16, 98 01:36:46 pm"
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You ( Eivind Eklund ) write: => On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:03:04PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: => > lpd (and friends) have a replacement: LPRng. Which runs as GID daemon, and => > has a lot of nice other features. Next to the fact that it is a maintained => > product. => => Unfortunately it isn't maintained 'well enough' to continiously take => in the FreeBSD fixes. We've fixed security problems which they've had => come upon them like a bomb a year later. True, but all in all it gives you much better control over your printing. And I have the feeling that security awareness is growing..... --WjW -- Internet Access Eindhoven BV., voice: +31-40-2 393 393, data: +31-40-2 606 606 P.O. 928, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands Full Internet connectivity for only fl 12.95 a month. Call now, and login as 'new'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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