[48265] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rowland, Alan D)
Sat May 25 03:06:10 2002
From: "Rowland, Alan D" <alan_r1@corp.earthlink.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:51:19 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Most flash media includes read only 'tabs' similar to the legacy floppy
variety. Steven may have hit on an interesting solution here...
-Al
-----Original Message-----
From: E.B. Dreger [mailto:eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 2:38 PM
To: FiXXiT@off-road.com
Cc: Dan Hollis; Steven J. Sobol; Vinny Abello; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
JKS> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 17:34:29 -0400 (EDT)
JKS> From: Jason K. Schechner
JKS> > Why would you want to do this?
JKS>
JKS> Logging. If a h@xx0r cracks your box he can't erase
JKS> anything that's already been written there. Often it takes
BSD enforces append-only when running proper securelevel. AFAIK,
Linux lacks this attribute, and root can disable the so-called
"immutable" attrib.
JKS> a physical change (jumper, dipswitch, etc) to change from
JKS> write-only to read-only making it pretty tough for the
JKS> h@xx0r to cover his steps.
Why not log to an external bastion host?
--
Eddy
Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division
Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national
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