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Subject: Re: conf/21814: Inetd's very existence is a security risk.
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Synopsis: Inetd's very existence is a security risk.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: wollman
State-Changed-When: Sat Oct 7 10:25:02 PDT 2000
State-Changed-Why: 
Any attacker who could run a pre-built inetd binary on your system
is well capable of copying his own binary there.  Inetd does not have
innate privilege.  Therefore, there is no conceivable security improvement
from disabling it.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21814


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