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Date:      Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:34:33 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Importing lukemftpd
Message-ID:  <3B585D99.60A9C4C6@mindspring.com>
References:  <XFMail.20010716212454.mheffner@novacoxmail.com> <20010717103604.B79329@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010719112221.A84356@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010719123015.A44746@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010719203700.B94074@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010719210332.A78418@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > > Are you now holding all daemon hostage?  I think you're being
> > > > too strong on this statement.  If this is going to be the case,
> > > > please document that from now on daemon changes (or new ones)
> > > > must be pre-approved by the S.O.
> > >
> > > You're being facetious.
> >
> > A little.  But I do find that your power play seems to be arbitrarily
> > applied to LukeM ftpd.
> 
> There haven't been any other cases of similar impact recently for me
> to stand up and do my thing over.  If someone wanted to -- say --
> commit a replacement IPv4 stack which had been rewritten from scratch,
> or a rewritten inetd, etc, then I'd be saying the exact same thing.

Suggestion: make the old ftpd a port, if the NetBSD one is
going to be default, since there are additional features,
and it has been security audited.  I, for one, will be keeping
it around.

-- Terry

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