Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:39:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben <spy@tyr.office.efn.org> 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: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980821183339.26762D-100000@Tyr.office.EFN.org> In-Reply-To: <199808211915.MAA18409@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Jon Hamilton wrote:
>
> That doesn't address remote logging, however.
No, but I think this does help that.
-s Operate in secure mode. Do not listen for log message from re-
mote machines.
Of course, if you specify this you have no remote troubles at all. If you
specify this and -a you only have to deal with people spoofing udp datagrams
which is almost unavoidable unless you firewall incoming udp packets at your
border router.
-ben@efn.org
>
> Jon Hamilton
> hamilton@pobox.com
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