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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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