Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:15:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@bigfoot.com> To: FreeBSD-security Mailing List <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: securelevel descr Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906200013000.66866-100000@srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906192309200.66866-100000@srh0710.urh.uiuc.edu>
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Frank Tobin, at 23:12 on Sat, 19 Jun 1999, wrote: > Nicholas Brawn, at 11:34 on Sun, 20 Jun 1999, wrote: > > > The intruder could still setup a cron job to periodically start up > > the backdoor. > > I mean, jeez, how many times do I have to say 'chflags'? > Erm, I wasn't thinking straight when I sent that. A better thing that I should have said is that you start up cron in the startup scripts late, so that the intruder can't influece the startup sequence through a 'memorization' process. -- 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
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