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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:15:48 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disabling inetd?
Message-ID:  <20000626031547.J14265@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000626115146.S36017@zoe.bastard.co.uk>; from adrian@freebsd.org on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:51:46AM %2B0200
References:  <20000626053525.U85886@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <20000626115146.S36017@zoe.bastard.co.uk>

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On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:51:46AM +0200, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> If I remember right, the telnet port isn't insecure by itself, only
> open telnet connections. So there really isn't anything to be said
> for killing telnet for 'out of the box security' - if people use
> telnet rather than ssh, they're going to enable it anyway.

I cannot quite parse what you are saying.  What does speaking about a
port's security mean?
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)


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