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From: carroll@snail.CS.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Slaying Gould dragon with a wooden
Message-ID: <3800016@snail>
Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 16:24:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  3 16:24:00 1986
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/* Written 11:34 am  Nov  1, 1986 by page@ulowell.UUCP in snail:net.unix */
Harder to deal with: If you log in as root on the console and somebody
sends a message via syslog(3).  Anybody found a resonable defense against
this, other than ``don't use block-mode terminals for consoles'' (an
academic question, we don't anyway) or ``don't log in to the console''?
(...)
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What about 3b2's, where you HAVE to be at console to login as root?