chrooting daemons

1997-10-15 Thread Topi Miettinen
One way to limit damage caused by a daemon with an exploited security hole is to run it in "jail", chrooted environment. An example is DNS: http://www.homeport.org/~adam/dns.html The same mechanism could be used with several other daemons which do not need to access files outside their running dir

Re: Mailing list crossposting

1997-10-15 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson) writes: > That way people who subscribe to all of the lists above won't have to > read the messages many times. Some newsreaders (GNUS for example) can be set up to cache Message-IDs and discard duplicates. Guy

Mailing list crossposting

1997-10-15 Thread Ian Jackson
To debian-policy: can we please make it policy that messages should usually only be sent to one of: debian-devel debian-policy debian-user debian-announce debian-devel-announce ? To debian-dissent: the question of debian-dissent is a little tricky (it's not an official Debian list, and we cer

Re: US Debian Crypto Policy - Project leadership position

1997-10-15 Thread Manong Dibos
Im in agreement with this. Dave, if you're going to stand up to the government, then DO it, and dont use it as an excuse to be a prick, otherwise you'll lose (have lost some already) the moral support we were prepared to give you. Jonathan Walther On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Ian Jackson wrote: > Dave