[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Login and SIGHUP

"Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> writes:

> In message <m2elsgtgz3.fsf@boreas.yi.org.>
> 	so spake John Fremlin (vii):
> 
> > This may be a stupid but I can't see how hanging up helps an
> > attack. Without the strange SIGHUP handling SIGHUP is set to be
> > ignored anyway.
> 
> That would result in login hanging around after the remote end
> terminates (at least until the alarm kicked in).

That's what I figured, and therefore concluded that SIGHUP and SIGALRM
should be treated the same.

-- 

	http://ape.n3.net