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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:32:40 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Licia <licia@o-o.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, fad@o-o.org
Subject:   Re: added chroot to /usr/bin/login
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990312182830.03ff2240@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903121853470.24744-100000@o-o.org>
References:  <4.1.19990312174003.03fc2490@localhost>

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At 07:25 PM 3/12/99 -0600, Licia wrote:
 
>For this situation I think really that anything else would be overkill.  I'm
>actually thinking of removing the chroot-group idea, and having it totally
>based on /etc/login.conf, but for now I think it's ok as it is :)

It might be. The only reason I like the idea of having an /etc/loginchroot
file is as follows. I currently administer a system that has LOTS of users
whose access to things must be limited. We started by putting them all
in one group and using that one GID as a criterion. But the group got
past 200 users and this started messing up.

Also, there's the problem that a user can only be in some small number
(16, I think) of groups. Several users are at their limit on that system.
To add them to a "chroot group" would break things!

I think that S/Key's scheme would be overkill, but that the one used by
ftpd for the same purpose is about right. It also has the advantage of
establishing a consistent convention. Would you be willing to let me
work on this with you? I'd be glad to submit code to test.

--Brett Glass





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