Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 00:53:37 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is the technique described in this article do-able with Message-ID: <20020208234001.R21734-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200202090620.RAA19299@caligula.anu.edu.au>
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On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Darren Reed wrote: > In some mail from Brett Glass, sie said: > > > > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1824/sam0201d/0201d.htm > > I believe that when you "halt" FreeBSD the whole OS halts. > When you see the "press any key to rebot" message, no more > activity is happening. true.. i don't think any of the BSDs will respond, since the kernel is only waiting for a keystroke to restart. to me this may be less secure than just having the machine fully up and running. > One question though, how do you generate log information? if the OS is still passing packets, you could easily have it set to output all log info to a serial port. this may, or may not, work even in linux. of course, you may not care about log info. > Personally, I think of this as a 'misfeature'. i wouldn't put it that far down, just yet. i don't see how much of an advantage it would be over a fully operational box, on the other hand. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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