Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:56:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) Message-ID: <199904131256.IAA08835@kot.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <199904131150.EAA14736@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Apr 13, 1999 04:50:19 am"
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Just review the thread: >. Look, here is a little script, which allows any user to perform a DoS attack! <. Khmm, yes indeed, but you can remove any user who does this. >. But shouldn't the system be able to sustain/detect this sort of attack? [... Nice theoretical discussion is skipped. ...] <. No, it is your responsibility as a sysop, do not give accounts to those you don't trust. >. Oh, well, but what about public-shell systems? <. Public shell systems are a bad idea! >. Just because FreeBSD can not handle it, does not mean the task itself is a bad idea... <. [Now we are all upset, flames start to light the sky]: . FreeBSD handles this here and here! . No OS will handle it quite right... . You just need to be a better sysop. >. Sorry, no offense meant... Why don't we admit this possibility exists (as well as many others, perhaps) for a local user to cause a DoS and may be someday someone will address it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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