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Date:      Sun, 13 Sep 1998 13:16:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Holling <myke@ees.com>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        marquis@roble.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sshd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809131315300.10371-100000@phluffy.lm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20632.905676426@verdi.nethelp.no>

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> > If you're running inetd then it doesn't seem consistent to start
> > daemons that don't need to run all the time from startup scripts.
> > Inetd was designed to conserve memory.  If you have it why not use it?
> > /etc/inetd.conf is also a common place to implement access control (via
> > tcp_wrappers).

Inetd runs many things, and on some of the (older) machines here inetd
occasionally dies.  It's very nice to have ssh run standalone so you can
still get into the machine remotely and restart inetd.

- Mike



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