From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 16:22:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27232 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:22:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27225 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:22:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id LAA17163; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 11:21:53 +1100 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma017151; Thu, 3 Dec 98 11:21:38 +1100 Received: from saruman (saruman.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.108]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA12185; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 11:21:30 +1100 From: "John Saunders" To: Cc: Subject: RE: back orifice Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 11:21:30 +1100 Message-ID: <000c01be1e52$dfabea90$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <199812022035.MAA17844@deal1.bogs.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- . +-------------------------------------------------------+ ,--_|\ | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au | / Oz \ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61294289563 Fax +61294289933 | \_,--\_/ | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | v +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message