post-installation questions

[Dave Goodrich]

FreeBSD requires gpg be set suid root to remove the "Using insecure
memory" error message. I've had to do this on FBSD 3.1 to FBSD 4.1. NOt
sure about the others.

DAve

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:02:07AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:52:22 +1000, David K Trudgett said:
> 
> > I believe the system call under Linux to allocated non-swappable
> > ("locked") memory can only be executed by a user with root privileges.
> > This is probably true on most other Unixes, too, because of the scope
> > for DoS attacks.
> 
> IIRC, *BSD does not require root privs.  I consider this requirement
> of Linux an unfortunate choice but the maintainers did not liked a
> patch to keep locked pages in an ulimit.
> 
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