Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:58:49 +0000 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to do about nologin(8)? Message-ID: <1077566329.24177.3.camel@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040223171828.03de8b30@imap.sfu.ca> References: <6.0.1.1.1.20040223171828.03de8b30@imap.sfu.ca>
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On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 17:45, Colin Percival wrote:
> As anyone who reads cvs-all (or Mark Johnston's wonderful
> summaries thereof) will know, I recently added logging into
> nologin(8): Instead of simply printing an error message, it
> now (via syslog) records the refused login attempt.
> For security reasons, nologin(8) must be statically linked;
> as a result, adding logging has increased the binary size by
> slightly over 100K (on i386). For historical reasons (which
> is to say, "nobody seems to know why"), nologin is located in
> /sbin, which means that this has a non-trivial effect upon
> the space used on the root partition. Some people are unhappy
> about this.
> I can see a number of possible options; I'd like to hear
> opinions on which would be the best.
>
How about:
7: Use 'system("logger ...") to log the failed login?
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