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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!csn!arrayb!cwolff From: cwolff@arrayb.uucp (Clint Wolff) Subject: Minimum system required Message-ID: <1993May29.211134.7557@intellistor.com> Sender: cwolff@intellistor.com (Clint Wolff) Organization: Intellistor, Longmont, CO Date: Sat, 29 May 93 21:11:34 GMT Lines: 30 Greeting NetBSD hackers... I preparing to replace a Sun 386i with a NetBSD based system to be used as a ftp and somewhat of a rlogin host... My questions are: 1) What is the minimum hardware required; Can a 386SX be used? Is a coprocesser required to run? Is 4Mb of memory enough (no X windows)? 2) How secure is the security package? I am concerned that if a remote user could become root, they could nfs mount any drive in our (private) network... Has anyone figured out ways to hack the system? Are there known bugs in the security implementation? Thanks for your help... PS I found an interesting bug in SOSS (the PC based NFS server)... If a directory name has a extension (ie NETBSD.08) SOSS can't descend into it, and NetBSD reports errors about access denied... Renaming the directory to NETBSD08 fixes the problem... -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Clint Wolff Blonde and proud of it | | Fujitsu Computer Products of America - Intellistor Research and Development | | cwolff@slowboy.intellistor.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SAVE BANDWIDTH... EMAIL YOUR RESPONSES TO THE PERSON WHO ASKED... | | DON'T POST ME-TO MESSAGES... EMAIL THE ORIGINAL POSTER FOR A SUMMARY | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+