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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:04:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
To:        ben@efn.org
Cc:        Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, dima@best.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Shipping syslogd with "-s" (Was: Re: Scaring the bezeesus ..)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808212201490.27345-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980821183339.26762D-100000@Tyr.office.EFN.org>

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	I vote to have FreeBSD ship syslogd with "-s" by default.

	Reason: any user cluefull enough to use and custom config syslog to
do over the net logging will be cluefull enough to know how to either add
"-a" or take "-s" out of rc.conf.

-- Yan

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On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Ben wrote:

>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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