From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 11 21: 4:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AB437B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:04:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30061636; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id VAA28123; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39E5384C.4C3C0D53@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:04:28 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Jordan Hubbard , Alfred Perlstein , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf References: <15251.971315263@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > 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 This message is targetted for an audience that doesn't know whether or not telnetd is enabled in inetd.conf. The contradiction is in the assumption that these people care about security. They don't; otherwise they would know whether telnetd was enabled or not. Therefore, the message is meaningless. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message