From owner-freebsd-security Fri Sep 17 14:56: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from hawaii.conterra.com (hawaii.conterra.com [209.12.164.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8814215410 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:56:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from myself@conterra.com) Received: from dmaddox.conterra.com (root@dmaddox.conterra.com [209.12.169.48]) by hawaii.conterra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA28180; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:55:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from myself@localhost) by dmaddox.conterra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA01798; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:56:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from myself) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:56:03 -0400 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to prevent motd including os info Message-ID: <19990917175603.A1571@dmaddox.conterra.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@conterra.com References: <4.1.19990913003757.0096b660@mail.thegrid.net> <4.1.19990913003757.0096b660@mail.thegrid.net> <19990913173532.A842@dmaddox.conterra.com> <3.0.3.32.19990913191825.00ad66f0@207.227.119.2> <19990913210513.A3167@dmaddox.conterra.com> <19990917120236.39316@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <19990917120236.39316@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 12:02:36PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Donald J . Maddox scribbled this message on Sep 13: > > There may not be ANYTHING *BSD in the jail environment, let alone > > 'strings'. Again, assumptions. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ummm.. yes there is... can we say ENOSYS?? I knew you could... assuming > people have write permissions and execute permissions... ^^^^^^^^ When discussing an environment one has no knowledge of whatsoever, it's not a good idea to assume a lot. For the record, it may very well be impossible to create an environment that is 100% anonymous, and yet not so crippled as to be useless; however, it may not be. I find it interesting that all the responses I've seen to this thread so far seem to assume that the environment will allow compiling and executing arbitrary code. Why would anybody assume that? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message