Re: Security patch for /proc

Gerhard Mack (gmack@imag.net)
Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:46:23 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Marc Slemko wrote:

> When you actually look at using such restrictions, you often run
> into enough problems to give up.
>
> For example, say you allowd a "httpd" user to bind to port 80, then
> you ran Apache as httpd. So far so good; it can bind to the port,
> it can serve requests, no longer needs to be started by root.
>
HTTP wasn't my first thought, sendmail was.

IMO It's not a fix all sollution but it will fix some problems.

Gerhard

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As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.

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