From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre7: are security issues solved?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:16:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030723201619.GA21303@pc.aurel32> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030723105903.GA2582@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:59:03PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Anyway, I'm not that bothered with making /proc/tty/driver root-only,
> even if it is only for what seems to me to be dubious reasons.
Or maybe it is possible to update this information with a longer period.
Let's say for example 5 seconds. So it is almost impossible to determine
the length of a password.
It is a little more complicated, but it has the advantage that the
statistics about the serial ports are still available for normal users.
Aurelien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-23 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-21 20:40 2.4.22-pre7: are security issues solved? Aschwin Marsman
2003-07-22 7:04 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-22 15:02 ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-07-22 15:07 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-22 17:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-07-23 9:56 ` Herbert Xu
2003-07-23 10:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 10:39 ` Herbert Xu
2003-07-23 10:48 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 10:47 ` Herbert Xu
2003-07-23 10:50 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 10:59 ` Herbert Xu
2003-07-23 20:16 ` Aurelien Jarno [this message]
2003-07-23 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 17:47 ` David Wagner
2003-07-23 11:57 ` Ville Herva
2003-07-23 17:50 ` David Wagner
2003-07-24 9:11 ` Florian Weimer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-23 12:56 John Bradford
2003-07-23 13:10 ` root
2003-07-23 14:08 John Bradford
2003-07-23 15:46 ` Aschwin Marsman
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