On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 05:36:47AM +0200, Wolfgang Jährling wrote: > It is so obvious that one does not want this on a "secured" system that > one certainly won't forget to change it. Therefore, if you really want > to improve security, you should maybe look somewhere else. According to > the BTS (#46709), every program on GNU/Hurd can currenty access I/O > ports directly. Before this is fixed, this system is insecure anyway.
Just for the record, GNU Mach 2 has proper I/O permission control. As usual, I didn't bother with GNU Mach 1.x, but I could switch it to provide no I/O permissions to anyone easily :) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/
