Re: NetKGDB v3

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Mon Feb 27 2012 - 19:04:50 EST


On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:30:08 -0500
Andrei Warkentin <andrey.warkentin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> netkgdb is designed to accept connections
> from any hosts, i.e. it is not necessary to specify these ahead
> of time. This makes it that much more useful in a "this host crashed
> and a I want a developer to take a look at it" scenario, common to
> large scale test/QA farms and automated testing harnesses.

And opens a security hole so wide that no production network
or distro should ever enable it!
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