Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:21:51 -0600 (CST) From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu> To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disabling FTP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231717330.32081-100000@isr4033.urh.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <383B1F8C.60DC2726@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters, at 16:13 on Tue, 23 Nov 1999, wrote: > There may be as many as 20 little knobs to turn on and off; this is NOT > going to SIMPLIFY the install. At a glance, ftp, telnet, shell, login, > finger, ntalk, ident, and smtp are all ones to put in the Q&A, and that's > just glancing through /etc/inetd.conf quickly. A newbie isn't going to > know what to do about any of them. So, you give them a button that says > "I'm a newbie, let me install an OPEN system" and then point them at a > document that tells them what the differences between the "Newbie OPEN" > install and the "Expert Closed" install are, and why they differ. I aagree with Wes; we're not trying to configure the entire system during install; rather, it seems we would like to choose from one of two inetd.conf's, one that has services enabled, and one that doesn't. And let's please not use demeaning radio boxes like "newbie open" and "expert closed"; rather something along the lines of "services open (recommended for novices)" and "services closed (recommended for minimal security risk)". -- Frank Tobin http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/ "To learn what is good and what is to be valued, those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus OpenPGP: 4F86 3BBB A816 6F0A 340F 6003 56FF D10A 260C 4FA3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the messagehelp
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