From owner-freebsd-security Mon Aug 24 08:57:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16459 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:57:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from coleridge.kublai.com (coleridge.kublai.com [207.96.1.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16454 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:57:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.kublai.com) Received: from natasya.kublai.com (natasya.kublai.com [207.172.25.236]) by coleridge.kublai.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07934; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:56:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.kublai.com) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.kublai.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22225; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:56:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980824115644.19643@kublai.com> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:56:44 -0400 From: Brian Cully To: "Timothy R. Platt" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaring the bezeesus out of your system admin as a normal user: Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: <199808211915.MAA18409@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Timothy R. Platt on Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 05:55:35AM -0700 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 05:55:35AM -0700, Timothy R. Platt wrote: > Seems to me that if you specify -s, not only do you reject incoming > packets, but you are prevented from sending packets to a remote logging > machine as well. No, you can send packets even if you use -s; -s only prevents a bind to the syslog port. > -a will cause syslog to accept packets from a remote machine which would be > ignored by default. I don't think you need -s with -a. But the man page is unclear in this respect. -- Brian Cully ``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message