Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:30:52 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: hart@iserver.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaring the bezeesus out of your system admin as a normal user: Message-ID: <35E2F4CC.5820504D@dal.net> References: <199808250220.TAA17312@bubba.whistle.com>
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Archie Cobbs wrote:
>
> 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.
This was discussed several months ago (check the archives for -Stable I
think), but my understanding was that it was decided ultimately NOT to
bind the port otherwise I would have made more noise about it myself.
Doug
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