From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 13 1:46:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D4337B4EC for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:46:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA94407; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:46:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: dmp@pantherdragon.org Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd -ss not part of extreme security option? References: <3A88EB70.CC8CB78E@pantherdragon.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 13 Feb 2001 10:46:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: dmp@pantherdragon.org's message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:08:16 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org dmp@pantherdragon.org writes: > I was wondering why putting syslogd_flags="-ss" in /etc/rc.conf isn't > part of sysinstall's extreme security option? This is in 4.2-R, has > it changed since the release? It doesn't really buy you much except an insiginficant performance increase and a warm fuzzy feeling - barring a kernel bug that would allow data to be sent to a half-closed socket, but no such bug is known. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message