[geeks] wild article

[Rob]

You've now introduced user processes. You now have OS basxed attacks which
this whole deal was supposed to avoid. Why do you want swap?

- Rob

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, doctor obnox son of a bitch wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 01:12:41PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd had the audacity to opine:
> > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1824/sam0201d/0201d.htm
> >
> > Check that out.  Seems kinda far out.  I wonder how well it works, and if it
> > can be applied to NetBSDs...
> >
> > Oops, you can't use pppd or rp-pppoe with this method.  Oh well.  Still looks
> > nifty.
> >
> > --
> > Joshua D. Boyd
>
>   OK, a slightly different approach...instead of modifying the shutdown
>   scripts, just modify the hell out of the startup scripts. Just start
>   up the absolute bare minimum of kernel-space daemons, and unmount all file
>   systems except the swap.  Configure syslog to log remotely.
>
>   So all you'd have running would be sshd, syslogd, swap daemon, and
>   anything else that the above daemons would need.
>
> --
>
>                             "Safety Third!"
>
> Eric J. Gustafson                                   drobnox at visi.com
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