Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:11:34 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Eirik ?verby <ltning@anduin.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4 Message-ID: <20050721181134.GA58429@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <00DD4399-4317-4579-82C4-5B64AC3F800B@anduin.net> References: <20050721050048.GU22430@xor.obsecurity.org> <00DD4399-4317-4579-82C4-5B64AC3F800B@anduin.net>
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--sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:56:54AM +0200, Eirik ?verby wrote: > >You might have to wait until 6.0-R since fixing it seems to require > >infrastructure changes that cannot easily be backported to 5.x. >=20 > With all due respect - if this is (and I'm assuming it is, because it =20 > happens on all the servers I'm serial-controlling) an omnipresent =20 > problem on 5.x, I daresay it should warrant some more attention. =20 > Having unsafe serial terminal support that can bring down your system =20 > like that defies much of the point of having serial terminal support =20 > in the first place. It *has* received attention, and the conclusion was as above. 6.0 has some significant TTY changes relative to 5.x, which probably cannot be backported without disruption. > However, since I seem to be the only one who has noticed this, =20 > perhaps I'm the last person on earth to routinely use serial terminal =20 > switches instead of KVM switches to do my admin work? No, others have reported it too. Kris --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC3+VWWry0BWjoQKURAi4eAKDCWBSGkLvoxeIXoJnHgFH1GEh4qwCgnvjz CI0eCLkF5KO3JMRQhiXTF/8= =5gVc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c--
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