From owner-freebsd-security Sat Feb 9 1:31:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B014D37B41F for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 01:31:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g199V8S51322; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 01:31:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 01:31:08 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: jan@localhost To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is the technique described in this article do-able with In-Reply-To: <20020209192203.J32999@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Message-ID: <20020209012249.M21734-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > | actually, if you're going that route, it's easier to strip the kernel > | down, lock everything nicely with a securelevel (read up in init(8) about > | this), and remount all of the drives read only. there's nothing preventing > | anyone from doing that. there's also nothing to prevent you from booting > | from a drive, and loading all the tools you need in to a ramdisk, and just > | using that.. > | > | of course, this is going a bit more hardcore than most people want or > | would. > > But saner than trying to get the box to partially halt d8) perhaps. i think it's a sane way to handle a firewall. if you're going to log it, you should be logging either to another machine or to a printer for hardcopy. better to do both, since the hardcopy is not really alterable. but this is not something for the home user.. -------/ 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