From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 12 18:01:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02499 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 18:01:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02485 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 18:01:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hvergelmir.ifi.uio.no (2602@hvergelmir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.129]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id DAA15207; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 03:01:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hvergelmir.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 03:01:35 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Roger Marquis Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 13 Sep 1998 03:01:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: Roger Marquis's message of "Fri, 11 Sep 1998 20:16:08 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id SAA02495 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Roger Marquis writes: > 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. "Much more reliable"? What's more reliable than 100%? Have you ever experienced any problems running sshd from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/? I haven't, and *all* boxes I control rely entirely on ssh for remote access, and have inetd disabled. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message