From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 12 5:50: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CE137B503 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 05:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA316008; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:46:00 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <39E5384C.4C3C0D53@cup.hp.com> References: <15251.971315263@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <39E5384C.4C3C0D53@cup.hp.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:45:59 -0400 To: Marcel Moolenaar From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Cc: Jordan Hubbard , Alfred Perlstein , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:04 PM -0700 10/11/00, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > 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. As I explicitly mentioned in the paragraph after that code, "The text of the message needs to be improved, of course" --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message