Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 08:44:50 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do we *really* need logger(1)? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950907083820.22792E-100000@gate> In-Reply-To: <m0sqPDt-00004yC@cloud.rain.com>
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On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, Bill Trost wrote:
>
> Logger requires no special permissions to run; anyone can run such a
> program. Better yet, anyone could run such a program anywhere on the
> Internet, so syslogd(8) can also be used as a remote disk-filling
> service. (And, since it's UDP-based, you can't tcp-wrap it...).
syslog() and syslogd are the real problems. What use is there for a
syslog service on port 514? I don't see why it should even bother listening
to a network port. It should only accept input from /dev/[k]log.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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