Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 05:55:52 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: chris@calldei.com, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Dmitry Valdov <dv@dv.ru>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) Message-ID: <19990413055552.G2189@holly.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <37131436.644E6E48@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 06:53:58PM %2B0900 References: <199904102051.WAA07790@zed.ludd.luth.se> <199904102057.NAA01570@apollo.backplane.com> <19990413004728.C1968@holly.dyndns.org> <37131436.644E6E48@newsguy.com>
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On Tue, Apr 13, 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > What you really mean is that "FreeBSD is not a solution for public > shell systems", correct? Public shell systems is not a bad idea, > it's a business opportunity and a public service. If the OS is not > up to the task, don't blame the task. If you close your eyes and run towards a brick wall with the goal being to destroy it, and instead you injure yourself, it's not your forehead's fault or the wall's fault (no matter how much you cuss out the wall), but the person behind it. If you were strong and determined enough, perhaps you could solve the problem, but your forehead wasn't meant to crash through walls by default, and the brick wall wasn't meant to have a forehead plow through it. Make any sense? The admin shouldn't expect a public shell service to be secure out of the box with anything. BSD/OS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD - are any of these born shell service OS? I doubt it. It takes a hefty bit of 'tweaking', I'd imagine, to make a system fit to run a public shell. In "theory", no OS I've heard of is a "solution" for shell systems, at least out of the box and with an unexperienced administrator. Does this clear it up? > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > > "nothing better than the ability to perform cunning linguistics" -- Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> Be careful when a loop exits to the same place from side and bottom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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