From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 26 3:15:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D5D837BC3D; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:15:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA17630; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id DAA96826; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:15:48 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Adrian Chadd Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disabling inetd? Message-ID: <20000626031547.J14265@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20000626053525.U85886@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <20000626115146.S36017@zoe.bastard.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000626115146.S36017@zoe.bastard.co.uk>; from adrian@freebsd.org on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:51:46AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message