Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 22:00:22 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <88823.971294422@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:05:09 PDT." <200010111905.e9BJ59X21786@earth.backplane.com>
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In message <200010111905.e9BJ59X21786@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: > There's being 'reasonable' and there's being 'unreasonable'. This > type of argument doesn't wash when the reasonable thing to do, with > the availability of ssh, is to make things 'reasonably secure' by > default. You can't ask for more, but neither should you require > less. The lowest common denominator is not telnet or ftp any more. Matt, we can make things very secure by default by not starting any network processes and no gettys. That way people are forced to boot single user first time and configure their system. While people like you seem to prefer such "perfect" solutions, others recognize that they just *might* harm our market acceptance. Suggest you switch to OpenBSD, I think they would be more supportive of your approach. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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