From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 8:22: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.201.55.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF10737B6DC for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:21:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net) Received: from localhost (jwg2@localhost) by adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA09332; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:22:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:22:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Gray To: Fred Clift Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Lowell Gilbert Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: How not to reboot, was part of df - du leakage (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, appreciate the heads up. They now recommend running as user, not as root. I put BB on a 4.0 box, running as user and the leakage problem went away along with the security concerns. Jeff On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Fred Clift wrote: > > > > The culprit? A network monitoring program called big brother. Excellent > > program, never did this before. I took it off the 3.3 box and installed > > it on another box, running 4.0 and now both boxes have stable file > > By the way, there were some recent security advisories released about > big-brother. You might want to go and get a newer version. I dont > remember the details... > > > Fred > > > -- > Fred Clift - fred@veriohosting.com -- Remember: If brute > force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message