From owner-freebsd-security Mon Mar 26 19:54:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D44A37B719 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:54:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2R3s8f30079; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:54:08 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Message-Id: <200103270354.f2R3s8f30079@ns1.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: Garance A Drosihn Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:54:06 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: SSHD revelaing too much information. Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 26 Mar 2001, at 22:49, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:30 PM -0500 3/26/01, Robert Watson wrote: > >OK, so I go knowingly into a heated discussion :-). > > And you go an ruin a good, building flame-war by bringing in > facts and a reasoned analysis. Boy, what a spoil-sport... You remember the above..... > My next question is whether this version-paranoid behavior should > key off some system setting (a sysctl of some sort), as perhaps > there are other network-service daemons where this same issue > comes up. Might as well have them all key off a single option. And then apply it to this. This is the first decent suggestion I've seen on this discussion. Wel done. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message