Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:46:38 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MOTD -- Warning banners Message-ID: <20020102154638.GC9126@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <200201021537.g02Fbj658803@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0201021445050.9788-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <200201021537.g02Fbj658803@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:37:45PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > Any way if he does > > > # cd / > > > # rm -rf * > > > > > > Recording it isn't going to be much of a comfort. > > > > That's what securelevels (and/or remote loghosts) are for. > > Furthermore, you can also log to a remote system, so the > attacker would have to find and hack that one, too, in order > to remove all traces. > > Finally, if you're _really_ paranoid, you can copy syslog > onto a hardcopy printer. One of those fast dotpin line > printers, so you can easily detect a DoS attack by the > increased noise level. ;-) > > Regards > Oliver > Glad to see *some* people have a sense of humour :) I worked somewhere once where we had a login banner that said "Unauthorized access to this machine is punishable by law" (Which it probably was, since it was a government department) In a moment of childish naughtyness I changed this (selectively) to say "Unauthorized access to this machine is punishable by death" It was a long time before anyone noticed. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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