Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:45:59 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <v04210105b60b62d2b755@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <39E5384C.4C3C0D53@cup.hp.com> References: <15251.971315263@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <v04210104b60acfa922f4@[128.113.24.47]> <39E5384C.4C3C0D53@cup.hp.com>
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At 9:04 PM -0700 10/11/00, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > Just add a dumb check to /root/.cshrc. I don't do any
> > csh scripting, but in bash it'd be something like:
> >
> > grep -qs '^telnet' /etc/inetd.conf
> > if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
> > echo ""
> > echo "*** Note: telnetd is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf"
> > echo "*** either comment it out of there, or"
> > echo "*** delete this check in /root/.bashrc"
> > echo ""
> > fi
>
>This message is targetted for an audience that doesn't know whether or
>not telnetd is enabled in inetd.conf. The contradiction is in the
>assumption that these people care about security. They don't; otherwise
>they would know whether telnetd was enabled or not. Therefore, the
>message is meaningless.
As I explicitly mentioned in the paragraph after that code,
"The text of the message needs to be improved, of course"
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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