From owner-freebsd-security Fri Nov 12 11:53:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D60E14EA9 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00800; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:52:43 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991112125043.00c85f00@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:52:54 -0700 To: Matthew Dillon , Barry Irwin From: Brett Glass Subject: Disabling FTP by default Cc: Josef Karthauser , Bill Fumerola , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199911121946.LAA24616@apollo.backplane.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19991111220759.044f46d0@localhost> <19991112173306.D76708@florence.pavilion.net> <19991112212912.Z57266@rucus.ru.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:46 AM 11/12/1999 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Speaking of default system configurations - what do people think about > turning off the 'ftp' service in the default configuration? I'm in favor of making it an option in /stand/sysinstall, just as anonymous FTP is. The default should be to disable the daemon. It'd sure be nice if there were an unencumbered scp to enable instead. I understand that the OpenBSD folks have a BSD-licensed SSH in the works, but it might still be encumbered by patents..... Does anyone know what the legal issues are here in the US? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message