Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 22:50:29 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <v04210104b60acfa922f4@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <15251.971315263@winston.osd.bsdi.com> References: <15251.971315263@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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Not that I want to be a pest, but let me try this proposal
one more time. If someone could tell me what is bad about
this proposal, I would like to hear it.
Leave telnetd enabled, but have a dumb message printed
every time someone logs into root while it is enabled.
Just add a dumb check to /root/.cshrc. I don't do any
csh scripting, but in bash it'd be something like:
grep -qs '^telnet' /etc/inetd.conf
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
echo ""
echo "*** Note: telnetd is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf"
echo "*** either comment it out of there, or"
echo "*** delete this check in /root/.bashrc"
echo ""
fi
Seems to me this avoids any problems with headless machines,
or with the dialog appearing or not-appearing based on which
type of installation is being done. (the exact wording of
the message needs to be improved, of course).
Note that I HAVE had freebsd installs where sshd did NOT work,
so I don't buy the argument that "now that we have sshd, it
will always work on all installs and therefore we can be 100%
certain there will never ever be a need for telnetd immediately
after doing an install". There's these things called "updates",
and from time-to-time "updates" break things that otherwise
work.
Once a person gets far enough into an install that they manage
to log into root, then they should have a pretty good idea if
they want telnetd active. Also note that this CONTINUES to
check for telnetd being enabled, which (imo) is a better idea
than just disabling it by default.
So, if we did this MASSIVE change, and left telnetd enabled by
default, WHAT WOULD THE PROBLEM BE?
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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