Re: Remote Syslogd

From: John (scottyat_private)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 23:48:14 PST

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    On Tuesday 05 November 2002 03:30 T, Gino Pietro Guidi wrote:
    > I have recently came across an article that described secure
    > logging using snort. Basically snort was configured to dump the
    > contents of all syslog packets sent to a fake ip. Then that ip was
    > set up as the loghost ip on the remote hosts. With this
    > configuration, in theory, you wouldn't be able to hack into it
    > provided the snort box had no ip's on ANY interface and simply
    > listened. It was interesting but I haven't gotten around to trying
    > it yet. It sounds pretty strong to me though. I think it was in
    > Linux Journal that I read about it. I could probably find the
    > reference if anyone is interested...
    >
    
    The article is a Linux Journal:
    
    http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6222
    
    I am reading it know and it sound interesting.
    
    -- 
    cYa
    
    John
    
    Don't give up.  DON'T EVER GIVE UP!!!
    		"Jimmy V"
    
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