From owner-freebsd-security Mon Feb 11 18:32:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from newman2.bestweb.net (newman2.bestweb.net [209.94.102.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB80937B6AD for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:19:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from okeeffe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by newman2.bestweb.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D105923357; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:18:35 -0500 (EST) Received: by okeeffe.bestweb.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id 1005C9F01F; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:13:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 00:53:37 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Darren Reed Cc: Brett Glass , Subject: Re: Is the technique described in this article do-able with Message-Id: <20020212021303.1005C9F01F@okeeffe.bestweb.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Darren Reed wrote: > In some mail from Brett Glass, sie said: > > > > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1824/sam0201d/0201d.htm > > I believe that when you "halt" FreeBSD the whole OS halts. > When you see the "press any key to rebot" message, no more > activity is happening. true.. i don't think any of the BSDs will respond, since the kernel is only waiting for a keystroke to restart. to me this may be less secure than just having the machine fully up and running. > One question though, how do you generate log information? if the OS is still passing packets, you could easily have it set to output all log info to a serial port. this may, or may not, work even in linux. of course, you may not care about log info. > Personally, I think of this as a 'misfeature'. i wouldn't put it that far down, just yet. i don't see how much of an advantage it would be over a fully operational box, on the other hand. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message