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Date:      Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:36:05 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf 
Message-ID:  <200108150336.f7F3a5W20082@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:54:26 %2B0930." <20010815105426.F61413@wantadilla.lemis.com> 
References:  <20010815105426.F61413@wantadilla.lemis.com>  <200108020219.f722Jun16596@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010814213312.C22531@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> 

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In message <20010815105426.F61413@wantadilla.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes:
: On Tuesday, 14 August 2001 at 21:33:12 +0200, Alexander Langer wrote:
: > Thus spake Robert Watson (rwatson@FreeBSD.org):
: >
: >>   Default to disabling all inetd.conf entries, in particular, telnetd
: >>   and ftpd.  This more conservative default reduces the exposure of
: >
: > Let's disable all other services as well and start advertising
: > FreeBSD with "No remote exploit in the default install since xx months/
: > years", too, as the OpenBSD folks do.
: 
: I think that sounds funny enough in OpenBSD.  We don't want to be
: accused of stealing their slogans too.

Also, there's a catch.  The OpenBSD stuff does have holes in old
releases, so the above really should say "in the latest release at the
time."  OpenBSD 2.8's telnetd has a root hole, for example.

Wanrer

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