From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 11 18: 3: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4015937B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id DAA95995; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 03:02:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA57925; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 03:02:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 03:02:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Terry Lambert Cc: Matt Dillon , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf In-Reply-To: <200010110527.WAA10938@usr09.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > isn't poked full of holes when someone turns inetd on without looking > > > at inetd.conf. I can't imagine why anyone would do that, I guess > > "If someone points a gun at their foot, and pull the trigger, it is Unix' > > task to reliably deliver the bullet to it's intended target." - phk, iirc. > That was actually me; you left off ": in this case, Mr. Foot". I stand corrected. > I like the idea of an "anal" package, though... Indeed. This is a very simple way to provide the security I hear people call out for, without changing what has worked for us so far. Our task is to provide our users with tools, not to do their job for them. There's also an element of false security here. Just like some people actually get less security than they used to because they buy a firewall and think that is the end of their problems, we are just building our own pyre here. Let's not make any claims that we cannot keep, like "secure out of the box for the past N years" or whatever. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message