Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:01:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Nicole H." <nicole@mediacity.com>, Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, "[Mario1-]" <mario1@primenet.com>, JbHunt <johnnyu@accessus.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, Tomasz Dudziak <loco@onyks.wszib.poznan.pl> Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970728175833.3844X-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM> In-Reply-To: <12855.870137639@orion.webspan.net>
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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Gary Palmer wrote: =)Vincent Poy wrote in message ID =)<Pine.BSF.3.95.970728173911.3844T-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>: =)> It seems the interface always goes into promiscuous mode though. =) =)Err? Not on my systems it doesn't. It seems to happen on every machine including fresh installed ones. This is from dmesg: ed1: promiscuous mode enabled ed1: promiscuous mode enabled ed1: promiscuous mode enabled =)> Hmmm, if BPF isn't there, how will utils like trafshow work to =)> track people down? =) =)Track what people down? Track people who ping icmp flood the machine since that's what trafshow is for. =)It's really a choice. You can run a secure shell server or you can run =)a shell server which, if hacked, becomes a real threat. I've taken =)certain liberties locally (bpf is still compiled in), but since the =)machine is right behind me (literally), and carefully watched, I'm not =)particularly worried right now. I watch the machines like 20 hours a day almost and no one even knows I'm logged on when I'm using screen sessions. and I never su unless necessary. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
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