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To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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Subject: Re: wats so special about freeBSD?
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Date: 21 Sep 2000 09:42:28 +0200
In-Reply-To: "Crist J . Clark"'s message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:54:05 -0700"
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"Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> writes:
> From a review of /etc/defaults/rc.conf, 5.0-CURRENT has turned off the
> three biggies that I didn't like the default YES,
> 
>   inetd_enable="NO"
>   sendmail_enable="NO"
>   portmap_enable="NO"
> 
> But I assume /stand/sysinstall will ask if these should be turned on.
> This is good.

Actually, IIRC, sysinstall turns them on by default for POLA reasons.
But at least now you can see from your rc.conf that they're on.

> And if one were to get really paraniod (and it is my job to be these
> days), /proc should not be put in a sysinstall generated fstab without
> warning the user due to its checkered security history

/proc should be fine now.

DES
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