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Date:      Thu, 23 Apr 1998 19:20:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrsbin@FreeBSD.ORG, soren@dt.dk
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c
Message-ID:  <199804240220.TAA10069@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <4852.893278525@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Apr 22, 98 10:55:25 pm"

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> 
> >> I would think that all securemode should do would be to not include the
> >> fd in what select is watching, but the code before this change also
> >> diked out the bind, so you wouldn't know what port you would be sending
> >> syslog messages from, making ipfw unable to decide if the message came
> >> from syslogd or some random user...
> >
> >True, but your changes force us to run wide open, both in and out, if
> >we want to do remote logging at all :-(.
> 
> Yes, but remember that the mods (not mine!) was reviewed by me, and 
> I concluded that since that bind was absent it was snake oil security.
> 
> If you and peter agree with me that all -s should do is to not listen
> for packets, but still bind to the syslog udp port so the remote
> receiver of our syslog messages know we sent them, then I'll happily
> make it do that.

Yes, I agree with that.

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