From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 3 13: 8:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0BE14A0D for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 13:08:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA55948; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:07:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA16047; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:07:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991203160626.01a658a0@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:06:26 -0500 To: Alfred Perlstein From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Denial of Service attacks Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:04 PM 12/3/99 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >you need a 3.3-stable or 4.0-current box, the login paramter is >'sbsize' Is this documented anywhere I dont see any reference to it in STABLE from today ? Also, the problem with rmuser for an ISP, is that its after the fact With 7,000 users, you have a potential for a lot of little kiddies trying out the latest scripts they got from IRC :-( ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message