From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 28 3:30:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAED414C39 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (iras-2-31.ucdavis.edu [169.237.16.159]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA11597 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:30:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA38033 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:30:43 GMT (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:30:42 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Inetd wrapping OFF by default Message-ID: <19990628033042.A37489@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <32068.930508133@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <3776D1EF.D4D4021E@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <3776D1EF.D4D4021E@gorean.org>; from Doug on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 06:37:51PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > First, the setting in /etc/defaults/rc.conf should default to off, as > defaulting it to on violates POLA for the many many people who haven't > updated to 3.x from 2.2 yet. Personally, I don't care what is the default in 3.x, but it should be ON by default in 4.0. > I propose that the -w flag be changed to take parameters. To start with, > you would have [-w <[e] [i]>] to control wrapping for external and internal > services respectively. This would also allow the system to be extensible in > the future to include other types or subtypes of services. Interesting idea... I like it. As you said, it removes us from forcing some policy and just provides the mechanism. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message