Re: `cgiwrap` packaged

1997-06-07 Thread jwalther
On 7 Jun 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > I saw an announcement of apache-1.2. That WWW server includes SuExec, > which does what you want AFAIK (gonna try it myself next week) Wall, in that case, please make sure its turned on by default. I wanna just install apache, and bEwM! My users ca

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

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: 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

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 f

`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: 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% accessib

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 "con

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 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 copyrig

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 docume

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 v