Re: debian shipped more secure in the future?
> Was curious.
>
> bind has well documented easy to impliment ways to run as non root and
> in chroot().
> sendmail has an easy way to run many tasks as non root
>
> however defaults in debian don't take advantage of any of this, its not
> hard for people to add but it would be nice if the debs defaulted to the
> more secure behavior to help the newbies. apache does come
> pre-configured to run as non root ..
>
> is there any disavantage to doing this ??
>
Perhaps you should submit a wish list bug to the maintainers and see what they
will come up with?
> nate
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