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Date:      Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:27:37 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001011102737.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010110152340.51005-100000@login-1.eunet.no>

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On 10-Oct-00 Marius Bendiksen wrote:
> > Download an SSH client for Windows or the Mac.
> > A quick web search shows up several.
>  Beside the point that such a client could've been trojanized, I would
>  point out that I have been in situations where this would not have been
>  feasible.

So could your telnet client.
Its not like Windows provides any security worth the name.

>  This is a policy issue. If I wanted "off by default", I would either do a
>  manual install, or I would go for OpenBSD. If you really need to do this,
>  why not simply add a package which extracts files in /etc and so forth,
>  which could do these things?
>  
>  Didn't I hear someone mutter "tools, not policy" a while back? This would
>  seem to me to be such an issue.

The argument is the same if I want 'on by default'. ie If I want 'on by
default' I'll install Solaris, or...

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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