Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 10:47:30 -0400 From: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com> To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: excessive verbosity Message-ID: <34004982.1129@kew.com> References: <199708232248.SAA01776@pandora.hh.kew.com> <199708240436.XAA00969@compound.east.sun.com>
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(cc'ed to chat) Tony Kimball wrote: > Quoth Drew Derbyshire on Sat, 23 August: > : > Do we really need console messages like this? > : > cd0: NOT READY asc:3a,0 Medium not present > : > cd0: error code 0 > : > > : > I think they are a security hole, if nothing else. > : > : Huh? Why is that? > > Anyone logged in can poll and empty CD drive and > overflow the log space. Any program can do that with logger, or write a (long) one-line C program to call syslog directly. So I must disagree as it to being any real hole. -ahd- -- Internet: ahd@kew.com Voice: 617-279-9810 "I fight Authority, Authority always wins . . ."
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