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Subject: Re: OpenBSD Exploit
From: Brett Lymn (blymnBAESYSTEMS.COM.AU)
Date: Mon Nov 06 2000 - 00:36:19 CST


According to rloxley:
>
> A very smart attacker will:
>

A smarter one will walk up to the console you assume they have
physical access to and hit the DDB hot-key sequence (this is
control-alt-escape for i386, other architectures are different). Note
that DDB is an _option_ that is in the GENERIC kernel by default it
can be disabled by reconfiguring the kernel. You can also prevent the
kernel from dropping to DDB on a panic by putting

options DDB_ONPANIC=0

in the kernel config and rebuilding. Well, at least you can for
NetBSD - not sure about OpenBSD.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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