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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:58:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      sos@FreeBSD.org
To:        ache@nagual.ru (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, sos@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/usr.sbin/ppp command.c
Message-ID:  <199610110958.LAA15010@ra.dkuug.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199610110917.NAA00448@nagual.ru> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Oct 11, 96 01:17:44 pm

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In reply to =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= who wrote:
> 
> > As Soren Schmidt wrote:
> > > sos         96/10/10 04:27:38
> > > 
> > >   Modified:    usr.sbin/ppp  command.c
> > >   Log:
> > >   Allow shell commands in all modes.
> > 
> > Do you get a root shell now if you run ``ppp -auto'', connect to port
> > 3000, and issue a `shell'?  I would consider this a very bad move!
> > 
> 
> Yes, we just make security hole, it should be fixed.

Oops... I guess it was too late in the night when I did that...

Any good suggestions as how to make this work securely ??
Maybe only allowing the program named in the ppp.xxx file, that
way security is at the/etc/ppp level.

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Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
               So much code to hack -- so little time.



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