Date: 18 Apr 1998 09:25:25 -0500 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>, dima@best.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel permissions Message-ID: <87iuo7ky0a.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:55:44 -0700" References: <14147.892853744@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: > [Can we get this thread the ^&%@!$#!! out of -stable now please?] > > > Yep, and I maintain that for 99% of us, this was a *HUGE* step backwards. > > What would you have done instead? Add a question to the system installation procedure that asks whether login based restrictions should be employed. Explain that this is useful for multi-user sites mostly, and can be configured with the login.conf file. If this is a mostly a single user machine, or you are not concerned with others hogging resources, then choose "NO" now. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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