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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:58:02 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf 
Message-ID:  <72356.971193482@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:54:09 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001010095155.90573M-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001010095155.90573M-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe
rt Watson writes:
>
>On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:11:11AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
>> > > > >    Do any committers have any objections to me disabling ntalk, finger,
>> > > > >    telnet, rsh, and ftp by default in -current?  And sandboxing 'named' by
>> > > > >    default in -current?
>> > 
>> > Won't this make it difficult to bootstrap a headless 1U box?
>> 
>> The point, which many people in this discussion somehow keep missing,
>> is that when you do a default installation of recent versions of
>> FreeBSD, the machine reboots with ssh enabled and working.
>
>As I pointed out earlier, there needs to be a way for the administrator to
>securely retrieve the SSH key so that they can log in securely.

And as I pointed out earlier: having ssh doesn't help people who have
only a windows box to connect from.

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