From owner-cvs-all Sun Oct 8 23: 4:53 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E20D37B66C; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA59493; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:07:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA03201; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:05:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200010090605.XAA03201@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <39E15630.7B4A8FE6@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 23:05:33 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Doug Barton Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Warner Losh , Matt Dillon , Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Oct-00 Doug Barton wrote: > 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. Err, inetd _is_ off by default in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. UTSL. The discussion here is how to handle /etc/inetd.conf. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message