Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:58.lpd

From: Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org)
Date: 08/31/01 

Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:45:33 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:57:59PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> [actually, I almost think that lpd should default to "secure" operation,
> and require someone to specify some startup flag if they DO want to
> accept remote print jobs, but that is probably too dramatic of a change.
> I also don't know how these flags would interact with the popular
> alternatives to the standard lpr/lpd, such as lprNG...]

I think that would be a reasonable thing to do at least in 5.0.

Kris

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