From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 28 17: 1:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AEC37C287; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:01:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA15897; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:01:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA0vaOVE; Wed Jun 28 17:01:03 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA08463; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:01:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200006290001.RAA08463@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Disabling inetd? To: andrews@technologist.com (Will Andrews) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 00:01:02 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), adrian@FreeBSD.ORG (Adrian Chadd), andrews@technologist.com (Will Andrews), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000626201508.B23538@argon.gryphonsoft.com> from "Will Andrews" at Jun 26, 2000 08:15:08 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Three more months until that patent expires, folks. Just three more > > months. > > I already realized that there is no way we can disable inetd completely > until telnet can have a guaranteed replacement, like ssh. =) > > When RSAREF becomes public domain (or whatever), that's a likely time > when we can lock down inetd by default. In the meantime, there's > nothing preventing us from working on any other issues that might > prevent this from happening. Some people use Windows machines as their clients. I guess you will get Microsoft to ship an SSH shell client too? Particularly if the BSD box is eing set up to be the network gateway? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message