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Date:      Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:33:15 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        rwatson@FreeBSD.org, alex@big.endian.de, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf
Message-ID:  <20010815123315.A35365@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <200108150333.f7F3XI515343@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:33:17PM -0400
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010814194754.72605A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <200108150333.f7F3XI515343@aldan.algebra.com>

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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:33:17PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On 14 Aug, Robert Watson wrote:
> > All of these programs do involve  risk, syslogd possibly a fair amount
> > less  so, and  I'd  be open  to  discussing how  to  disable them  but
> > minimize impact from an administrative standpoint.
> 
> BTW,  how  hard   is  it  to  make  syslogd  run   as  nobody?  Perhaps,
> nobody:operator? Does it have to be root?

It could possibly change to another uid after it had made it's
sockets (port 514 and /var/run/log), connected to /dev/klog and
opened all the log files. It would have to change back again if
you HUPed it though.

	David.


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