Date: 08 Jul 2002 13:56:36 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Marcus Reid <marcus-freebsd-chat@blazingdot.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remove UUCP from default install? Message-ID: <1026102422.1697.9.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3D290F0B.A5A943AF@mindspring.com> References: <20020708011523.GA10512@blazingdot.com> <3D290F0B.A5A943AF@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:33, Terry Lambert wrote: > It seems to me that it's the source of at least one very recent well > documented security problem, and just adds steps to being able to use > a box in the first place... even UUCP hasn't has a vulnerability > announcement as recently as SSH. More people use SSH than UUCP. We've already had this discussion that's why UUCP isn't in -stable any more. Until FreeBSD's ports structure is properly able to cope with stuff like SSH in the base without hacks then it is probably easier that it remains in CVS. -- 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 GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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