Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 11:21:30 +1100 From: "John Saunders" <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> To: <gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: back orifice Message-ID: <000c01be1e52$dfabea90$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199812022035.MAA17844@deal1.bogs.org>
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> So I did a web search and found out about it: it's a freeware remote
> access tool for windows 95+, and there is in fact a *nix client
> for it. I'm wondering whether this works as well as it sounds on
> FreeBSD. Has anyone tried it?
Works fine. Only thing to watch is that it opens up a lot of
file descriptors while scanning a network. It's error checking
isn't so good so it will core dump if you don't have enough.
It uses 32 (plus you need a few extra for stdio stuff), so the
default user limit of 20 isn't enough.
> I'm interested because in spite of a largely FreeBSD and BSD/OS
> network, we do have a couple of W95 machines, and such a tool might
> be very worthwhile, especially if we can telnet from FreeBSD -->
> W95.
Provided that your network is isolated (or your firewall filters
out the BO port) it can be safe to run. The developers say it's
a network management tool, although it contains commands that
you would think can only be used in a malicious way.
Cheers.
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