Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 02:18:02 -0400 From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is this code in syslogd.c? Message-ID: <7mufng$eev$1@twwells.com> References: <19990718194853.A29020@internal> <E115vml-00089S-00@twwells.com> <19990719080007.A7410@internal>
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In article <19990719080007.A7410@internal>, Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> wrote: : But I still can't understand what's the reason for doing that. OK, : a user could fake a kernel message but now he can do the same thing : with all other facilities. He can fake mail or auth messages as he likes... "X is something that a user should not do but can anyway. Therefore, we should not prevent the user from doing Y." Not very logical, is it? It would be nice if there was some control over who can send what messages. But it's not there, so we can't rely on them. However, it _is_ there for kernel messages, which is better than nothing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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