From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jun 18 8:30:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu (srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu [130.126.76.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AC7214D50 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ftobin@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 56882 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Jun 1999 15:30:49 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Jun 1999 15:30:49 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:30:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Tobin X-Sender: ftobin@srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu To: Chris Shenton Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securelevel descr In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Shenton, at 11:18 on 18 Jun 1999, wrote: > But if inetd can start daemons on priv ports, then a cracker can just > modify inetd.conf to start (say) "nc" on the telnet port. Or am I > missing something? chflags simmutable inetd.conf; Need I say more? :) chflags is a real wonder drug, IMO. -- Frank Tobin "To learn what is good and what is to be http://www.bigfoot.com/~ftobin valued, those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus FreeBSD: The Power To Serve PGPenvelope = GPG and PGP5 + Pine PGP: 4F86 3BBB A816 6F0A 340F http://www.bigfoot.com/~ftobin/resources.html 6003 56FF D10A 260C 4FA3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message