Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:07:40 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, KATO Takenori <kato@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel Message-ID: <30465.936720460@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 08:58:45 PDT." <199909071558.IAA81847@apollo.backplane.com>
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> But, unfortunately, putting the console on a serial port creates > vulnerabilities when DDB is enabled. You are, essentially, creating > an unintentional backdoor into the system. Hence the problem. ports/*/conserver is your friend! -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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