Re: security/installation question regarding plan

1997-06-07 Thread Carey Evans
Colin R. Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Also, netplan only reads and writes to LIB/netplan.dir the directory that netplan puts files into, and the only directory that netplan will read from (see Network Security). where LIB under the vanilla

Shadow Paper available from the web now.

1997-06-07 Thread Julie Haugh
Greets, I've finally managed to key in my '92 security paper on Shadow. You can find it at http://www.tab.com/~jfh/shadow-paper.html As I get some time to go over how things have changed in the last 5 years I intend to update it. My next Shadow-related project is cleaning up the

Re: Debian's Modify Redistribute Policy

1997-06-07 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian White) wrote on 05.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can understand Debian making policy that none of the core system will depend on such packages, but I don't see any advantage to simply disallowing such copyrights from the main distribution. With respect to copyrights,

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-07 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Pick) wrote on 01.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, very limiting. The code actually cannot be linked statically! Can't be linked dynamically either... read the GPL. Can too. Read the law. The GPL _cannot_ restrict someone from doing that, regardless of what they

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-06-07 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lees) wrote on 02.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 30 May 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lees) wrote on 27.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are ways to avoid this. For example, modify dpkg not to include any line with config=yes in it in

Re: FreeQt ?

1997-06-07 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Pick) wrote on 02.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I shouldn't have said 'dropping'. I don't think they are throwing any of the old code out. But they are switching to Java as the primary language which they are pushing. All of the NextStep API's will be 100% accessible

`cgiwrap` packaged

1997-06-07 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I've packaged `cgiwrap`, which makes it so ordinary users can safely run CGI scripts. The scripts run SUID/SGID the user who owns the script, and thus have full access to that persons files, and no permissions on things that user normally doesn't have. I am reading the policy manual right now;

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-07 Thread Mark Baker
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: Can't be linked dynamically either... read the GPL. Can too. Read the law. The GPL _cannot_ restrict someone from doing that, regardless of what they put in it. Although they _can_ restrict you from

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-07 Thread Wayne Schlitt
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Pick) wrote on 01.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, very limiting. The code actually cannot be linked statically! Can't be linked dynamically either... read the GPL. Can too. Read the law. That is

Re: `cgiwrap` packaged

1997-06-07 Thread jwalther
Yes yes yes *Please* include this in the main distribution!!! On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I've packaged `cgiwrap`, which makes it so ordinary users can safely run CGI scripts. The scripts run SUID/SGID the user who owns the -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: `cgiwrap` packaged

1997-06-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes yes yes *Please* include this in the main distribution!!! On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I've packaged `cgiwrap`, which makes it so ordinary users can safely run CGI scripts. The scripts run SUID/SGID the user who