From owner-freebsd-security Fri Sep 8 04:12:49 1995 Return-Path: security-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA01181 for security-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 04:12:49 -0700 Received: from relay.philips.nl (relay.philips.nl [130.144.65.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA01175 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 04:12:47 -0700 Received: (from smap@localhost) by relay.philips.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9-950414) id NAA21490; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 13:11:00 +0200 Received: from unknown(130.144.198.1) by relay.philips.nl via smap (V1.3+ESMTP) with SMTP id sma021416; Fri Sep 8 13:10:30 1995 Received: from spooky.lss.cp.philips.com by cnps.lss.cp.philips.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0sr2Hq-0000qjC; Fri, 8 Sep 95 13:12 MET Received: by spooky.lss.cp.philips.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sr1K1-000HneC; Fri, 8 Sep 95 13:10 MET DST Message-Id: From: guido@spooky.lss.cp.philips.com (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: Do we *really* need logger(1)? To: piero@strider.ibenet.it Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 13:10:13 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509081026.MAA22658@strider.ibenet.it> from "Piero Serini" at Sep 8, 95 12:26:37 pm Reply-To: Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com (Guido van Rooij) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 549 Sender: security-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Piero Serini wrote: > > Hello. > > Quoting from Andrew V. Stesin (Thu Sep 7 19:07:26 1995): > > (b) Optional encryption capability for the messages, > > using the system-wide libcrypt facility; > > even very simple one will be good, with parameters stored in > > /etc/syslog.conf. Better than nothing, really. > > Use the root passwd on the originating machine to encrypt the logs > sent via network. > I dont like a root password stored in a program. Better is to have a diffie-hellman scheme to obtain a session key. -Guido