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Date:      Sat, 12 Sep 1998 11:33:41 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        marquis@roble.com
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sshd 
Message-ID:  <12395.905592821@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Sep 1998 20:16:08 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.980911195617.10501D-100000@roble.com>

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> The recommended sshd startup method used to be /etc/rc*(/*), probably
> for historical reasons.  It may still be a good idea on slow CPUs,
> where it can take a while to generate a session key, or where
> inetd.conf isn't running, however, in my experience, sshd is much more
> reliably run from inetd.

I believe it *is* still the recommended method, even on faster CPUs. I've
used SSH since it came out, and I've found starting from /etc/rc*(/*) to
very reliable. I actually have several machines whose *only* possibility
of remote login is through ssh. It just runs and runs...

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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