Re: How Debian Linux could be made more secure

1998-04-29 Thread Thomas Roessler
. but also every sgid/suid bit that is not necessary should be removed. Certainly. i know, that some people do not like suidmanager, and so they don't use it. they should be forces to use it, or write something better. ACK. tlr -- Thomas Roessler · 74a353cc0b19 · dg1ktr · http://home.pages.de

How Debian Linux could be made more secure

1998-04-28 Thread Thomas Roessler
probably be done by several people, each of whom will pick the packages they work on. Comments? tlr -- Thomas Roessler · 74a353cc0b19 · dg1ktr · http://home.pages.de/~roessler/ 2048/CE6AC6C1 · 4E 04 F0 BC 72 FF 14 23 44 85 D1 A1 3B B0 73 C1 pgpPU0WrsxJeT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How Debian Linux could be made more secure

1998-04-28 Thread Thomas Roessler
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Re: CERT* VB-98.04: Vulnerabilities in xterm and Xaw

1998-04-28 Thread Thomas Roessler
. As a solution, we need a wrapper which does pty allocation and starts kind of client xterm with user privileges. (Or we need glibc-2.1 and linux 2.1 where non-privileged programs can do proper pty allocation. ;-) tlr -- Thomas Roessler · 74a353cc0b19 · dg1ktr · http://home.pages.de/~roessler

Re: PROPOSAL: Services, inetd and xinetd

1998-04-28 Thread Thomas Roessler
then easily import the sample files or keep your local changes. All this is (for additional comfort) combined with RCS version control. Translated to Debian, this would mean that packages would maintain the sample files, while users use the site directory for their own stuff. tlr -- Thomas Roessler