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-Last update: 2006-01-05
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- Avoiding damage on flatbed scanners
Most flatbed scanners have no protection against exceeding the physical scan
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- Security problems with saned (SANE network scanning daemon)
- saned is not intended to be exposed to the internet or other non-trusted
- networks. Make sure that access is limited by tcpwrappers and/or a firewall
- setup. Don't depend only on saned's own authentication. Don't run saned
- as root if it's not necessary. And do not install saned as setuid root.
- Read man saned(8) for details.
+ saned does not provide confidentiality when communicating with clients.
+ If saned is exposed directly on the network, other users may be able to
+ intercept scanned images, or learn passwords for connecting to saned,
+ with little effort. Client systems should connect to saned through a
+ secure tunnel to the server instead.
+
+ saned is not a trusted program and should not run with root privileges.