Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 08:16:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connect to lpd on insecure port Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005080815270.65787-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005081601490.32477-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > Today I did some testing concerning lpd and I was very astonished to see > that lpd accepts jobs also from insecure ports (violating RFC 1179). It > does not accept such jobs on 2.1.6-RELEASE (yes, I still have some old 386 > system out there with 2.1.6) but it does on 3.x (and as far as I've seen > from the code) and 4.x and also on 2.2.6. > Why and when has the behaviour of lpd been changed? I'd like lpd only to > accept connections from secure ports (do you remember the famous error > message `Malformed from address'? ;-) ) I think that particular message is why the change came about. Also pure usability -- it's awfully hard to submit a job from a priviledged port as a user, and I don't want to submit jobs as root. If you don't like it, that's what ipfw is for. :) Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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