From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Sep 16 7: 7:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6497D37B42C for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 07:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8GE7LN73293; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:07:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Daniel Eischen , Will Andrews , Steve Kargl , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends In-Reply-To: Your message of "16 Sep 2000 16:00:51 +0200." Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:07:21 +0200 Message-ID: <73291.969113241@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group writes: >> 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. > >I'm glad you're not in charge. > I can only agree with DES. It is not FreeBSD job to tell people which tools they can or cannot use. FreeBSDs job is to deliver a comprehensive tool-chest. FreeBSD: Tools, not policies. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message