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

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih@rpi.edu)
Date: 08/31/01 

Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:43:52 -0400
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>

At 6:45 PM -0700 8/30/01, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 30, 2001, 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.

Hmm. Well, let me think about it a bit more, and see if any
other alternatives come to mind. 

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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