From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 10 16:57:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7787937B66C for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:57:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id BAA66906; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:57:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA51031; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:57:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:57:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. > 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