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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:04:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        David Holland <dholland@eecs.harvard.edu>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   secure logging (was: Re: security hole in FreeBSD)
Message-ID:  <199707281404.KAA28556@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199707281312.JAA17812@burgundy.eecs.harvard.edu>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970728082931.3000B-100000@cyrus.watson.org> <199707281312.JAA17812@burgundy.eecs.harvard.edu>

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<<On Mon, 28 Jul 1997 09:12:37 -0400 (EDT), David Holland <dholland@eecs.harvard.edu> said:

> I don't know of any; if you run across one or are thinking about
> designing one, please post or mail... absent any other readily
> available secure mechanism probably the best bet is to carry log data
> over ssh. Of course, this doesn't solve the denial of service issue as
> anyone with a login can spam the local syslog.

It would be pretty trivial to add Kerberos authentication to syslogd
(using krb_mk_safe/krb_rd_safe)....  Of course, that doesn't help most
users, but perhaps it can serve as an incentive.

-GAWollman

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