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To: Frank Tobin <ftobin@bigfoot.com>
Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: securelevel descr
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From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>
Date: 18 Jun 1999 11:18:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: Frank Tobin's message of "Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:35:49 -0500 (CDT)"
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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:35:49 -0500 (CDT), Frank Tobin <ftobin@bigfoot.com> said:

Frank> Of course, your daemon better not die in this scenario, or you
Frank> have to be running inetd.  Your inetdn't should really be dying
Frank> though :)

But if inetd can start daemons on priv ports, then a cracker can just
modify inetd.conf to start (say) "nc" on the telnet port. Or am I
missing something? 


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