From owner-freebsd-security Thu Oct 14 7:23:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from faith.cs.utah.edu (faith.cs.utah.edu [155.99.198.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7C814C32 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danderse@faith.cs.utah.edu) Received: (from danderse@localhost) by faith.cs.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA09665; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 08:19:18 -0600 (MDT) From: David G Andersen Message-Id: <199910141419.IAA09665@faith.cs.utah.edu> Subject: Re: FreeSSH To: mike@argos.org (Mike Nowlin) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 08:19:18 -0600 (MDT) Cc: jwyatt@rwsystems.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Mike Nowlin" at Oct 14, 99 02:42:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lo and behold, Mike Nowlin once said: > > If we're going to entertain the idea of making UUCP a port, we should > entertain the idea of replacing it with something equally suited to moving > files over a modem, and FTP+PPP doesn't qualify -- too many points of > failure. I hate to admit it, but C-Kermit comes to mind. You need to > have SOMETHING in there that lets you do two key things - move files, and > talk directly to a serial port. Minicom works, but it relies on also > having zmodem, etc. installed as well. Note that I wasn't suggesting not making it a part of the base install - I kind of like the base install, even if it contains things I don't use. (I actually do use UUCP on one of my machines for backup email). What I *was* suggesting was a way for interested people to make slightly more fine-grained decisions about what "parts" of the base install they wanted to install. So someone going for a minimal setup would be saved the pain of later going and manually removing files and such (and then needing to do the same each time they upgrade). -Dave -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message