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Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 2000 20:49:42 +0200
From:      Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re[2]: BSD chpass (fwd)
Message-ID:  <12917380571.20001004204942@buz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20001004100859.33A4A1F0A@static.unixfreak.org>
References:  <20001004100859.33A4A1F0A@static.unixfreak.org>

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Hello Dima,

Wednesday, October 04, 2000, 12:08:59 PM, you wrote:
> of the script kid population).  A really clever attacker would modify
> your securelevel settings in rc.conf, reboot the machine making it
> look like a panic or power surge

What about setting schg for it as well? You'd just need to find a way
to change it yourself (not sure about it, but it should be changeable
in single user mode which is fortunately only controllable by the
console).




Best regards,
 Gabriel




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