Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 02:48:37 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: mikel@upan.org Cc: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, Konstantin Chuguev <Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk>, Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf Message-ID: <20001109024836.A99688@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <3A09636A.F81F0D28@ocsny.com>; from mikel@ocsny.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:30:02AM -0500 References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001106153332.00b2aad0@216.67.14.69> <20001107010203.A9348@hades.hell.gr> <20001106181838.A50442@peitho.fxp.org> <5.0.0.25.2.20001107091741.020ab5c0@216.67.14.69> <3A09636A.F81F0D28@ocsny.com>
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On Wed 2000-11-08 (09:30), Mikel wrote:
> I've had been considering running xinted for some time now, and thanks to
> Forest's suggestions I've been able to successfully get it up and running
> smoothly. I am personnaly left wondering why not just replact inetd altogether
> with this version? It certainly enhances security a bit.
How does it enhance security?
My main concern:
(nbm@scythe) /usr/src/usr.sbin/inetd> find . -type f -name "*.c" | xargs wc -l | grep total
2933 total
vs:
(nbm@scythe) /home/nbm/security/xinetd-2.1.8.9pre10> find . -type f -name "*.c" | xargs wc -l | grep total
23149 total
Neil
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