From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 17 1:55:21 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E155E15082; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:55:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 12A8s1-0007fe-00; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:54:45 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Bill Fumerola , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.8 In-reply-to: Your message of "16 Jan 2000 21:55:51 +0100." Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:54:45 +0200 Message-ID: <29489.948102885@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 16 Jan 2000 21:55:51 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Sheldon Hearn writes: > > Ideally, someone needs to change the -ss semantics so that remote > > logging from the local host is possible in that mode. > > No. You do not understand the issue at hand. Please read the code (and > the man page). The code isn't relevant and you changed the man page. The bottom line is that the -s option puts syslogd into secure mode. There's nothing insecure about logging to remote hosts from the local host, so the loss of support for this feature because of "secure mode" is a design flaw. I'm not saying that you should change the code, and it's certainly not my intention to either. I _am_ saying that if someone were to change the code so that remote logging from the local host is possible in secure mode, you shouldn't object. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message