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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.

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