Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:20:31 -0400 (EDT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: Torsten Blum <torstenb@onizuka.tb.9715.org>, mark@grondar.za, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Major bogon in tcp_wrappers port. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970912211638.12209B-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <19970912172743.64756@klemm.gtn.com>
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I'd just like to avoid the hassle of installing it on every machine...
I do think this could be made simple for the "dumb user" with a simple
question like "What hosts do you wish to allow to telnet to your machine?"
in sysinstall.
If incorporating it into the base is not acceptable, then I'll ask for a
knob in sysinstall here. Installation time isn't the worst time to allow
a newbie to learn a bit about security...
Charles
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 10:58:42AM +0200, Torsten Blum wrote:
> >
> > Everybody has different needs for security. There are more than enough
> > users who'll never need tcpwrapper because
> > - they only have a small set of "services" running on these boxes
> > (for example www server, dns, sendmail etc)
> > - we have users who really don't care about security (sad but true).
> > They never care to configure hosts.{allow,deny} or even check their
> > logfiles
> > - Machines without connections "external" connection
> > and many many more
>
> ok, agreed.
>
> > Andreas, have you _ever_ configured tcpd ? tcpd is not a standalone daemon.
> > To activate it, you have to modify inetd.conf.
>
> Yes I'm using it in the company for our secured FreeBSD internet
> gateway ...
>
> > Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a "more" secure system, but you don't get
> > this out of the box. You _always_ have to configure something.
>
> Ok, agreed. Peace man ;-)
>
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