From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 11 20: 6:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from roaming.cacheboy.net (roaming.cacheboy.net [203.56.168.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0514C37B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:06:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from adrian@localhost) by roaming.cacheboy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9C36sj14525 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 05:06:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from adrian) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 05:06:54 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <20001012050654.A14510@roaming.cacheboy.net> References: <15251.971315263@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:50:29PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 11, 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: [snip another interesting proposal] > 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? Paint. Adrian, who still doesn't see telnetd as a security hole, but cares not anymore. -- Adrian Chadd "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live." -- Random IRC quote To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message