From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Sep 16 8: 3:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E7837B423 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 08:03:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13aJVG-0005kK-00; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:03:42 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8GF4s441157; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:04:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:04:54 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Daniel Eischen , Will Andrews , Steve Kargl , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends Message-ID: <20000916170454.A40993@freebie.demon.nl> References: <200009152136.e8FLaou26312@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:00:51PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:00:51PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group writes: > > So what! That's the price of security. I believe that the > > telnet/ftp/"r" commands shouldn't even be ports. We need to make it > > difficult to install unsafe software on the system. That way the admin > > would have to go to all the trouble to find the source for unsafe > > software somewhere on the Net, port it, and install it. Then it's not > > FreeBSD's fault if that admin's system is compromised. > > I'm glad you're not in charge. Extremely glad, I might add.. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message