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Date:      Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:47:06 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        marquis@roble.com
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sshd
Message-ID:  <20632.905676426@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Sep 1998 19:59:58 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.980912195112.21513A-100000@roble.com>

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> If you're running inetd then it doesn't seem consistent to start
> daemons that don't need to run all the time from startup scripts.
> Inetd was designed to conserve memory.  If you have it why not use it?
> /etc/inetd.conf is also a common place to implement access control (via
> tcp_wrappers).

But I *do* need sshd all the time :-)  Starting it from inetd might make
sense if this is a host you login to very rarely.

> Other than that I've frequently run into situations where keepalives
> had to be turned off.  In those cases ssh sessions invariably die and
> their daemons have to be killed-off by hand (kill <PID>).  As it is
> difficult to tell the original daemon from the child daemons it's also
> easy to accidentally kill the parent.

Not really. "cat /var/run/sshd.pid" tells you the pid of the parent.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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