The very nature of syslog allows any system to log to it from a machine that set it is a loghost, so while there may be a DOS to fill up /var/log, its also a "feature" of syslogd.
-- Chris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, October 05, 2001, 1:41:48 PM, you wrote: S> hi, S> in these days there was a interesting thread about /dev/log that has S> 666 mode and some possible DOS that can be made by any user by just S> printing random thrash with syslog(3) and fill up the /var/log S> without being traced . S> one possible solution to that was to put /dev/log and to uid,gid syslog.syslog S> and then add every daemon which wants to write on log on gid syslog too. S> what do you think ?? Will debian reolve it ? S> thanks S> Samuele
