From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 10 17:58: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBBE837B502 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14583; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:27:38 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:27:37 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Marius Bendiksen Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Oct-00 Marius Bendiksen wrote: > > 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. So could your telnet client. Its not like Windows provides any security worth the name. > 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. The argument is the same if I want 'on by default'. ie If I want 'on by default' I'll install Solaris, or... --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message