Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 22:22:56 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <39E15630.7B4A8FE6@gorean.org> References: <521.971068411@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> Picture the following scenario: You're working at a data center
> setting up a dozen boxes in a rack and they are not as of yet on any
> public network, they're simply hooked to a hub/switch and can talk to
> one another and the windows laptop you have with you (since all the
> really colorful network sniff/trace software works under windows).
> You'd like to sit in the corner and use the laptop to log into each
> box to further configure it, and let's further say that your laptop
> just got Windows last week and is a pretty stock install.
ERrr... the argument that telnet should be available from inetd because
a worker might be coming to a job with the wrong tools isn't valid. A
better argument to allow telnet is that sshd requires some
configuration, and telnet doesn't.
However, isn't all of this moot in light of the planned (existing?)
options to sysinstall to specify exactly what to enable? My personal
feeling is that _everything_ should be off by default (in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf) and the user should pick specifically what to
enable.
Doug
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