From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 12:18:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9BC1527A; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:18:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA17187; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:17:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA26828; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:17:05 -0600 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:17:05 -0600 Message-Id: <199907271917.NAA26828@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Joe Greco Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), julian@whistle.com, green@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securelevel and ipfw zero In-Reply-To: <199907271859.NAA09676@aurora.sol.net> References: <199907271715.LAA25892@mt.sri.com> <199907271859.NAA09676@aurora.sol.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > I like the ability at secure level 3 to only reset the counters forward.. > > > It fits in with such things as the "append only" flag. > > > > Then we'd have to implement per-rule counters that default to > > IPFW_VERBOSE_LIMIT but that could be changed to anything. That's a very > > different setup than what we currently have. > > > > (Another thing I just thought of is that this could cause DoS attacks on > > the system if a user compromised root and then set the limit to a very > > high number.) > > This is already possible via sysctl, the VERBOSE_LIMIT variable may be > altered. Can this be altered in securelevel==3? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message