Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:27:37 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <XFMail.001011102737.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010110152340.51005-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
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On 10-Oct-00 Marius Bendiksen wrote: > > Download an SSH client for Windows or the Mac. > > A quick web search shows up several. > Beside the point that such a client could've been trojanized, I would > point out that I have been in situations where this would not have been > feasible. So could your telnet client. Its not like Windows provides any security worth the name. > This is a policy issue. If I wanted "off by default", I would either do a > manual install, or I would go for OpenBSD. If you really need to do this, > why not simply add a package which extracts files in /etc and so forth, > which could do these things? > > Didn't I hear someone mutter "tools, not policy" a while back? This would > seem to me to be such an issue. The argument is the same if I want 'on by default'. ie If I want 'on by default' I'll install Solaris, or... --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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