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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
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