Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:04:53 -0800 (PST) | | From | Gerhard Mack <> | | Subject | Re: Security patch for /proc |
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On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Rob Hagopian wrote:
> Most programs (apache comes to mind) drop root as soon as they've got the > port and don't do anything else as root, so it's shouldn't be a problem. > Frankly, I really don't want users trying to start daemons for services > I've intentionally disabled. > > There was, at one point, something circulating about security patches to > give more fine grained allocation of things like the lower ports which > solves both problems, but I haven't heard anything recently... > -Rob H. I'll clarify, I saw some work a few months ago to control access to those ports. Not everyone needs/should get access to them, but root IMHO is overkill.
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