Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:57:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010110152340.51005-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001010142140.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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> Download an SSH client for Windows or the Mac. > A quick web search shows up several. Beside the point that such a client could've been trojanized, I would point out that I have been in situations where this would not have been feasible. > <shrugs> If you think its one-upmanship, good for you, but lots of people think > that 'off by default' is a good thing. (and some of them even install on > headless servers!) This is a policy issue. If I wanted "off by default", I would either do a manual install, or I would go for OpenBSD. If you really need to do this, why not simply add a package which extracts files in /etc and so forth, which could do these things? Didn't I hear someone mutter "tools, not policy" a while back? This would seem to me to be such an issue. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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