Install-time "hardening" options
Ronald F. Guilmette
rfg at tristatelogic.com
Thu Oct 12 21:32:18 UTC 2017
In message <21945e9b-6573-5f8d-9b6d-26bbb8bfd748 at sentex.net>,
Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
>> (*) Disable opening Syslogd network socket (disables remote logging)
>
>Is not the default -s and this options makes it -ss. "disable remote
>logging" as in the host you are configuring cannot send out messages to
>other syslogd servers.
Was that a question or a statement?
If you are assering that indeed, yes, star'ing this specific "hardening"
option just causes the local machine to -not- send -outbound- syslog
messages, then certainly, that is indeed a horse of a different color
from what I was talking about, which was -accepting- -inbound- syslog
messages/packets.
At the very least, the wording on this option should be clarified to
make it apparent if the thing being disabled in this case is inbound
syslog messages or outbound ones.
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