Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:23:43 -0800 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? Message-ID: <199811220523.VAA00366@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> "Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure?" (Nov 17, 9:31am)
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On Nov 17, 9:31am, Marc Slemko wrote: } Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? } Say, for example, you have a MX record pointing to a server that does have } privileged ports. That means that, even if the mail server does crash or } stop listening on the port, any old user can't just bind to the port and } steal mail. Even better would be to quickly make enough connections to tcp port 23 (telnet) so that inetd decides this service is looping and shuts it down. Then you can bind a socket to port 23 and harvest user names and passwords. --- Truck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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