Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:47:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, dima@best.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaring the bezeesus out of your system admin as a normal user: Message-ID: <199808211947.PAA15656@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808211915.MAA18409@hub.freebsd.org> References: <199808211638.MAA15257@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199808211915.MAA18409@hub.freebsd.org>
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<<On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:19:00 -0500, Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> said: > } You missed the point. Credentials passed over PF_LOCAL sockets are by > } design unforgeable. > That doesn't address remote logging, however. Surely not. Remote logging, in the syslog mode, is inescapably insecure. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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