From owner-cvs-all Sun Oct 8 11:59:23 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from calcaphon.demon.co.uk (calcaphon.demon.co.uk [193.237.19.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0769F37B503; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from henny.qubesoft.com (henny.qubesoft.com [192.168.1.5]) by calcaphon.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA28751; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:58:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from n_hibma@qubesoft.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by henny.webweaving.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA64853; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 18:34:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from n_hibma@qubesoft.com) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 18:34:19 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Hibma Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Warner Losh Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf In-Reply-To: <200010081713.LAA02405@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_2_2) > : etc inetd.conf > : Log: > : MFC: Disable finger, rsh and rlogin by default > > Do we really want to make a change this big to a branch that old? I > don't think this is a security fix, per se, although it does have > security and usibility implications. I do think so. This is more of a change in mindset than functionality. People installing any of the versions will expect the external interface of the box to be similar independent of the version. Nick -- Qube Software, Ltd. Private: n_hibma@qubesoft.com n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org http://www.qubesoft.com/ http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message