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I have a somewhat busy sftp server where the users are all chrooted into their home directory. In order to log all the commands they enter, I have to create a /dev/log entry and hard link in their home directory so that syslog works for their commands Match user * ForceCommand internal-sftp -f local1 -l verbose Everything works, but its a bit of a pain if someone restarts syslogd and forgets

Other than cranking up logging to debug2, is there a way to better tune logging on a server to see if I am running into max sessions ? On FreeBSD RELENG11 I am periodically seeing connections being refused- 3way handshake not completing or completing and then FINs. Typically, I have a hundred or so connections at one time, but they can bounce up to a few hundred on occasion. Without leaving the

On a rather full customer web server, I am trying to track down whose web site script is trying to make outbound network connections when they should not be. In /etc/security/audit_control, I added to the flags line dir:/var/audit flags:lo,aa,-nt minfree:5 to log failed network connection. When I try an make an outbound connection to something that is blocked in pf, it seems to sometimes work.

On 7/24/2017 8:39 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > Why are the targets of the hardlinks evaporating on rebooting? Is that > a FreeBSD'ism? Its when syslogd stops/starts. The hardlinks need to be recreated for some reason. ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike at sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994

Does anyone know the practicality of this attack ? i.e. is this trivial to do ? ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada

Hi, Just got some of the new Soekris 1401 VPN cards based on the hifn 7955 chip. hifn0 mem 0xe8510000-0xe8517fff,0xe8518000-0xe8519fff,0xe851a000-0xe851afff irq 5 at device 0.0 on pci1 hifn0: Hifn 7955, rev 0, 32KB dram, 64 sessions vs hifn0 mem 0xeb902000-0xeb902fff,0xeb901000-0xeb901fff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci0 hifn0: Hifn 7951, rev 0, 128KB sram, 193 sessions When it says "n

An interesting paper http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/papers/p75-kuzmanovic.pdf ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike

FYI >To: misc@openbsd.org >Subject: FreeBSD hiding security stuff >Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 03:51:42 -0700 >From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> > >A few FreeBSD developers apparently have found some security issue >of some sort affecting i386 operating systems in some cases. > >They have refused to give us real details. > >A promise is now being

I wrote a small app that monitors a Back-UPS ES500 UPS via the uhid0 interface. I want to run the daemon with as little privs as possible. gastest# ls -l /dev/uhid0 crw-rw---- 1 root operator 122, 0 Nov 12 05:26 /dev/uhid0 gastest# Is it safe to chmod o+r /dev/uhid0 ? Or is there a better way to drop privs of the daemon yet still be able to read from the device ? All I am doing is

While trying to speed up nanobsd builds, I mounted /usr/obj on a ramdisk and found my box crashing. Thinking it might be hardware, I tried a separate machine, but with the same results. I have 4G of ram (i386). Am I just running out of some kernel memory ? If so, is there anything I can adjust to prevent this, yet still use mfs in this way ? mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 1800M newfs /dev/md0

Hi, I have been trying out a nice new tws controller and decided to enable debugging in the kernel and run some stress tests. With a regular GENERIC kernel, it boots up fine. But with debugging, it panics on boot. Anyone know whats up ? Is this something that should be sent directly to LSI ? pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0

Does anyone know of a way to rate limit ssh connections from an IP address ? We are starting to see more and more brute force attempts to guess simple passwords "/usr/sbin/inetd -wWl -C 10" is nice for slowing down attempts to services launched via inetd. Is there an equiv method for doing this to sshd? Running from inetd has some issues supposedly. ---Mike

Couple of little things I noticed with a new RELENG_7 AMD64 box (as of yesterday) ifstat from the ports cannot seem to find interfaces for some reason ? It works fine on i386 [ns8]# ifstat -b ifstat: no interfaces to monitor! [ns8]# [ns8]# ifconfig em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500

Operating system virtualization is the most effective way to utilize your system resources, jails let you setup isolated mini-systems. Jails are explains well in handbook however, from practical standpoint of view, the presented material is incomplete. The post below setup few scrips that follow handbook's 'Application of Jails' article and enhance with few missing features

I gave the AMD64 version of 7.2 RC2 a spin and all installed as expected off the dvd INTEL S3200SHV MB, Core2Duo, 4G of RAM In the past it had been suggested that for zfs tuning, something like vm.kmem_size_max="1073741824" vm.kmem_size="1073741824" vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1 However doing a simple test with bonnie and dd, there does not seem to be very much difference in

Hello, Is there any support (existing or planned) for host keys/certs being managed by some hardware device (tpm,hsm,etc..) instead of a flat file? thanks, -Kenny

Is the version in FreeBSD vulnerable ? http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-4.4 I know version 1 is disabled by default, but if its not, does it impact the daemon ? ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing

Cisco released an advisory about their ntp client and server having a bug http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/NTP-pub.shtml Is there a common code base at all that would have relevance to the code in FreeBSD ? I noticed in the COPYRIGHT file cisco has made some contributions. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa,

Login seems to be ignoring my /etc/login.access settings. I have the following entries (see below) in my login.access, yet any new user (not in the wheel group) is still allowed to login. What am I missing? # $FreeBSD: src/etc/login.access,v 1.3 1999/08/27 23:23:42 peter Exp $ # -:ALL EXCEPT wheel:console -:ALL EXCEPT wheel:ALL Thanks, -- Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information

http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2004/236929/index.htm ----Quote---- "The impact of this vulnerability varies by vendor and application, but in some deployment scenarios it is rated critical. Please see the vendor section below for further information. Alternatively contact your vendor for product specific information. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow an attacker to create a