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[linux-security] Re: [LINUX] IP_MASQ / Ethernet Passing Traffic After Halt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean B. Hamor)
Mon Apr 14 03:47:17 1997
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 13:00:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Sean B. Hamor" <hamors@litterbox.org>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199704131611.RAA28674@snowcrash.cymru.net>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
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On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
# Anyone who simply uses shutdown on an attacked machine is a fool. You
# have no idea what the cracker has done to your halt program. Use the BRS
# or pull out the cables.
You know that, and I know that, but do you really think that the average
admin knows that?
# If you want the Linux halt in the normal case to shutdown your network
# interfaces then ifconfig them down in the rc scripts.
Which I have now done. I have also been told that there is a "-i" flag in
shutdown that will ifconfig down all network interfaces before halt.
/\_/\ http://www.litterbox.org/~hamors/pgp.txt To err is human.
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