From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 7 21:28: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C43337B401 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 21:28:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B0CF43E3B for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 21:27:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g684QaZL078183; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:56:46 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Remove UUCP from default install? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Terry Lambert Cc: Marcus Reid , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3D290F0B.A5A943AF@mindspring.com> References: <20020708011523.GA10512@blazingdot.com> <3D290F0B.A5A943AF@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 08 Jul 2002 13:56:36 +0930 Message-Id: <1026102422.1697.9.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:33, Terry Lambert wrote: > It seems to me that it's the source of at least one very recent well > documented security problem, and just adds steps to being able to use > a box in the first place... even UUCP hasn't has a vulnerability > announcement as recently as SSH. More people use SSH than UUCP. We've already had this discussion that's why UUCP isn't in -stable any more. Until FreeBSD's ports structure is properly able to cope with stuff like SSH in the base without hacks then it is probably easier that it remains in CVS. -- 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 GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message