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Date:      Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:06:45 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail complains about being unable to write his pid file
Message-ID:  <199707212106.OAA11898@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <24270.869443683@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at Jul 21, 97 02:08:03 am

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> Certainly - for a corresponding decrease in security. I'd like to have
> the tighter security be the default. Or at least have it as an option
> when installing.

OK, I don't understand why you believe that something being owned by
root, an account with password access, the password for which is
succeptible to being cracked, is somehow more secure than ownership
by bin, an account without password access and therefore *not*
succeptible to being cracked.

Can you please explain how root ownership makes something more secure?


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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