Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 22:44:28 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, 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: <39E15B3C.80560313@gorean.org> References: <521.971068411@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <39E15630.7B4A8FE6@gorean.org> <20001008223626.B39735@citusc17.usc.edu>
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:22:56PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Nope, sshd doesn't require any configuration to be usable and useful
> out of the box.
Currently the necessary configuration happens behind the scenes, hidden
behind the rc* magic. (Not that I'm arguing that this is a bad thing,
necessarily.) But sshd does need some configuration before it is
runnable.
Whether we should hide it or not is debatable, but there is still a
step that needs to happen (and effectively, although not uniquely a
SPOF) before sshd works. This isn't the case with telnetd.
Doug
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