From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Sep 15 14:46:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nyct.net (bsd4.nyct.net [216.139.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356FA37B422 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd1.nyct.net (efutch@bsd1.nyct.net [216.139.128.3]) by mail.nyct.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA46367; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:46:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from efutch@nyct.net) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:46:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric D. Futch" To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Daniel Eischen , Will Andrews , Steve Kargl , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends In-Reply-To: <200009152136.e8FLaou26312@cwsys.cwsent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: >In message , > >So what! That's the price of security. I believe that the >telnet/ftp/"r" commands shouldn't even be ports. We need to make it >difficult to install unsafe software on the system. That way the admin >would have to go to all the trouble to find the source for unsafe >software somewhere on the Net, port it, and install it. Then it's not >FreeBSD's fault if that admin's system is compromised. > Then we can just call ourselves OpenBSD and be done with it :). > >Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 >Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 >Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca >Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA >Province of BC > -- Eric Futch New York Connect.Net, Ltd. efutch@nyct.net Technical Support Staff http://www.nyct.net (212) 293-2620 "Bringing New York The Internet Access It Deserves" KNYC: 15-Sep-00 16:51 EDT: 70.0 F (21.1 C), partly cloudy, humidity 47% To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message