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From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf
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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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