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Date:      Mon, 23 Sep 1996 02:00:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: bin/1665: libexec-telnetd deficiency
Message-ID:  <199609230900.CAA06639@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/1665; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: bde@zeta.org.au, pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/1665: libexec-telnetd deficiency
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 18:54:33 +1000

 > I'm not sure why it is considered harmful(?) either, but thats why
 > i'm not doing the commits, and you guys are :)
 
 It's usually non-committers that find things harmful :-).
 
 For gettytab, people complained that advertising the O/S version is
 a security hole.  That was just for %r.  %v gives even more information.
 
 Bruce



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