Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:38:08 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends Message-ID: <39C2EB20.73116B08@newsguy.com> References: <200009152136.e8FLaou26312@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > 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. Excuse me, but we don't need to make "difficult" anything. You go admin YOUR machines the way you want, but you don't f*cking come tell me how I should admin mine. I'm all for secure *defaults*, I'm all for warning the user of possibly security risks, but DON'T TREAT ME LIKE MICROSOFT DOES. Period. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net "I demand that my picture show a handsome face, even if it doesn't look like me." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the messagehelp
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