Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:52:47 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much security should ldconfig enforce? Message-ID: <20000727145247.A46416@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20000727075027.C8974@hamlet.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 07:50:27AM -0500 References: <XFMail.000726193613.jdp@polstra.com> <20000727075027.C8974@hamlet.nectar.com>
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On Thu 2000-07-27 (07:50), Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 07:36:13PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > > 3. It could default to strictly secure but accept a command-line > > option to relax the constraints. And an rc.conf knob could be added > > to control whether or not it was strict at boot time. > > I like this option, but the knob should be compile-time, IMHO. Why? You expect someone to check out sources and recompile the program to make it secure when you can instead use a command line option? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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