Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 01:00:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon) Cc: mbendiks@eunet.no (Marius Bendiksen), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <200010120100.SAA11291@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200010111905.e9BJ59X21786@earth.backplane.com> from "Matt Dillon" at Oct 11, 2000 12:05:09 PM
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> :Why not make them turned on by default, and make a package which makes > :your system secureish? Such a package can be installed from the usual > :sysinstall procedure. > > There's being 'reasonable' and there's being 'unreasonable'. This > type of argument doesn't wash when the reasonable thing to do, with > the availability of ssh, is to make things 'reasonably secure' by > default. You can't ask for more, but neither should you require > less. The lowest common denominator is not telnet or ftp any more. I'd like to know where to get ssh for all of the boxes I have, and for which I currently have telnet and ftp available. I won't list all 12 of them here, unless you request it. Or is it just the boxes that you have which are important in the market, period? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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