From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 13 10:33:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D119237B66D for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7DC7E94; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id KAA03547; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39E74774.E309DDE8@cup.hp.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:33:40 -0400 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf References: <15251.971315263@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <39E5384C.4C3C0D53@cup.hp.com> <39E5F78B.299628F6@cup.hp.com> <20001012195942.A18090@citusc17.usc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > I installed ucd-snmp yesterday to try something out. I know it installed > > a daemon, because it tells me so (in this case I already knew before I > > typed make). I therefore immediately know that security, if I'd care in > > the first place, would be an issue. In this case I couldn't care less. > > What happens? I get a security notice... It took me 5 minutes to funnel > > my agression :-) > > Code to read user's mind about whether they know the security > implications of a port gratefully accepted. There's a much simpler solution. Assume the user knows what he/she is doing. If that isn't the case, then there's also no point in trying to teach the user about security issues in a 5 line notice. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message