Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:04:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Scaring the bezeesus out of your system admin as a normal user: Message-ID: <199808211204.IAA14546@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <29367.903682974@time.cdrom.com> References: <29367.903682974@time.cdrom.com>
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<<On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:02:54 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> said: > % logger -p auth.notice -t su crackman to root on ttyp1 > I'd suggest that /var/run/log should have 0600 permissions but that > would certainly screw over a few of syslog(3)'s current users. > Hmmmm. No quick ideas here. :) It would be fairly simple for us to simply pass the user's credentials along with the message, and then have syslogd differentiate. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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