Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 21:44:37 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: vadim@tversu.ru (Vadim Kolontsov) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel/syslogd hack Message-ID: <199901061044.VAA24694@cheops.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19990106132848.A14928@tversu.ru> from "Vadim Kolontsov" at Jan 6, 99 01:28:48 pm
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In some mail from Vadim Kolontsov, sie said: > > Hello, > > On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 08:35:23PM +1100, Darren Reed wrote: > > > As far as /var/run/log goes, chown/chgrp/chmod are your friends or you > > can make /var/run/log a symbolic link to a protected directory with which > > you use the -p argument to place the log socket. e.g.: > > # mkdir /var/run/log.d > > # chmod 700 /var/run/log.d > > # ln -s /var/run/log.d/log /var/run/log > > # syslogd -p /var/run/log/log > > Sorry, I didn't understand you. In which cases would it help? The above stops non-root from sending syslog messages, locally. Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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