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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:10:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freebsd.org, soren@dt.dk
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c
Message-ID:  <199804221810.LAA07748@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <3176.893244892@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Apr 22, 98 01:34:52 pm"

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> 
> Hmmmm,
> 
> Now, I'm not too sure what people use SecureMode for, but it doesn't
> make sense to expect one host to accept remote logging from other
> hosts that don't, at least in my book...

Your book may not involve a large AS of systems that remotely syslog to
a central syslog server.  All ``syslog clients'' run in syslogd -s mode,
the ``syslog server'' runs in normal syslogd mode, but has ipfw setup
such that it only accepts syslog packets from a trusted list of clients.


> 
> I would tend to say `document that you cant do remote logging with "-s"'
> and leave it at that, but I may be overlooking something here...

I really thing you have over looked something!!!


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