On Mon, 8 May 2000, Konrad Heuer wrote:
>
> Today I did some testing concerning lpd and I was very astonished to see
> that lpd accepts jobs also from insecure ports (violating RFC 1179). It
> does not accept such jobs on 2.1.6-RELEASE (yes, I still have some old 386
> system out there with 2.1.6) but it does on 3.x (and as far as I've seen
> from the code) and 4.x and also on 2.2.6.
> Why and when has the behaviour of lpd been changed? I'd like lpd only to
> accept connections from secure ports (do you remember the famous error
> message `Malformed from address'? ;-) )
I think that particular message is why the change came about. Also pure
usability -- it's awfully hard to submit a job from a priviledged port as
a user, and I don't want to submit jobs as root.
If you don't like it, that's what ipfw is for. :)
Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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