Re: Why run syslogd insecurely?

To: Christian Koch <cfkoch%sdf.lonestar.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: Why run syslogd insecurely?
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:13:34 +0100

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:06:19PM +0000, Christian Koch wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Is there a reason why I (or anyone) would *not* want to run syslogd(8) with 
> the
> -s flag ("secure mode") ? I don't understand why this is an option.

To receive messages from the network. This is the purpose of the UDP socket
on port 514.
-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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References:
- Why run syslogd insecurely?
  - From: Christian Koch

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