From owner-freebsd-security Thu Aug 28 14:48:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA22592 for security-outgoing; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA22585 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:48:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA01548; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:48:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970828144815.02488@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:48:15 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Simon Shapiro Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: syslogd fun (fwd) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Simon Shapiro on Thu, Aug 28, 1997 at 12:49:12PM -0700 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Simon Shapiro scribbled this message on Aug 28: > Is this something we have to worry about in FreeBSD? I think it may, but > do not know... nope... freebsd's syslog in -current has the ability to turn on reception of such messages from specific hosts... and when you specify "secure" mode (which doesn't accept messages) you can still send messages to remote hosts for logging... commited 5/3/97 by Joerg... ttyl.. -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD