Bugtraq: Re: OpenBSD Exploit

[Brett Lymn <blymn () BAESYSTEMS COM AU>]

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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