Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 23:05:33 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <200010090605.XAA03201@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <39E15630.7B4A8FE6@gorean.org>
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On 09-Oct-00 Doug Barton wrote: > Jordan Hubbard wrote: > >> Picture the following scenario: You're working at a data center >> setting up a dozen boxes in a rack and they are not as of yet on any >> public network, they're simply hooked to a hub/switch and can talk to >> one another and the windows laptop you have with you (since all the >> really colorful network sniff/trace software works under windows). >> You'd like to sit in the corner and use the laptop to log into each >> box to further configure it, and let's further say that your laptop >> just got Windows last week and is a pretty stock install. > > ERrr... the argument that telnet should be available from inetd because > a worker might be coming to a job with the wrong tools isn't valid. A > better argument to allow telnet is that sshd requires some > configuration, and telnet doesn't. > > However, isn't all of this moot in light of the planned (existing?) > options to sysinstall to specify exactly what to enable? My personal > feeling is that _everything_ should be off by default (in > /etc/defaults/rc.conf) and the user should pick specifically what to > enable. Err, inetd _is_ off by default in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. UTSL. The discussion here is how to handle /etc/inetd.conf. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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