From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 12:20:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44FA416A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:20:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from hermes2.cf.ac.uk (hermes2.cf.ac.uk [131.251.0.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7179F43D48 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:20:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from fenrir.insrv.cf.ac.uk ([131.251.50.213]) by hermes2.cf.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1F266e-0008QU-6x; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:20:04 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1966051257.20060125040907@mail333.com> References: <1966051257.20060125040907@mail333.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-11-1057013117" Message-Id: <8E1DD9F2-9449-45BF-9C9B-7430EAE41798@submonkey.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ceri Davies Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:20:02 +0000 To: playnet X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.1 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: Cardiff University Sophos AV Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inetd and security X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:20:07 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-11-1057013117 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On 25 Jan 2006, at 01:09, Playnet wrote: > Hello freebsd-questions, > > What better for security reasons? > Inetd, xinetd, standalone? As sample -- vsftpd. > As i know, inetd insecure and deprecated. But what better, xinetd or > standalone? There's nothing inherently insecure about inetd, and I think that our implementation is just fine. As for {x,}inetd vs standalone, that depends entirely on your kind of load. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere --Apple-Mail-11-1057013117 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFD2L5zme8yCsQvJJ0RAvhiAJsGzFASvDjJ35terIU8owilwvOn0gCgqWVz OVsZVXjM0Fhj6KpIYyrwGNA= =CPh0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-11-1057013117--