Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 1996 06:58:08 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, dworkin@rover.village.org
Subject:   Re: Security (was: Re: Two commands: icat and ils) 
Message-ID:  <199601221358.GAA29324@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:03:44 %2B0100

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
: Why ? Security must be enforced with proper protections, not by
: simply trying to hide information which *is* available.

The standard reason that is given is that it bypasses all file system
checks...  However, you need to be root to run it, so maybe that isn't
such a horrible thing.

Warner



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199601221358.GAA29324>