Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 19:20:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: hart@iserver.com Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaring the bezeesus out of your system admin as a normal user: Message-ID: <199808250220.TAA17312@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980824102154.5333A-100000@anchovy.orem.iserver.com> from Paul Hart at "Aug 24, 98 10:32:08 am"
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Paul Hart writes: > This is kind of a related question, but in 2.2.7-RELEASE syslogd appears > to have been modified to bind to its UDP port even if it is run with the > -s flag. It does discard packets received on the port (but still logs a > message about it!), but should it not even bind to the port when running > in secure mode? It didn't bind to the port in previous versions, if > memory serves. > > If this was a recent design decision that is meant to last, I think I will > hack my syslogd back to the way it used to be. If you do, send it in with send-pr... this behavior seems kindof silly. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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