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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:56:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
cc: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>, loco@onyks.wszib.poznan.pl,
        security@FreeBSD.ORG, mario1@PrimeNet.Com, johnnyu@accessus.net
Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD
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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Robert Watson wrote:

=)> 	What does the -s do anyways?  I know it means secure but isn't it
=)> supposed to be secure already out of the box?
=)
=)-s prevents syslogd from accepting network network log messages.  Without
=)it, anyone who can deliver a packet to the syslog port using UDP can add a
=)line to your system logs.  When you add entries to syslog.conf like this:
=)
=)*.error		@loghost.domain
=)
=)you rely on not having the -s flag set.
=)
=)Allowing log messages from unauthorized hosts is a security problem, as
=)someone can insert ficticious messages (often-times, spoofed), flood your
=)logs, etc.

	Never noticed this one, was there a reason FreeBSD shipped with -s
off by default?


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