From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 11:35:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C0C37B407 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:35:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-18-9.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.18.9]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g57IZONb018147; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:35:24 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: schantz@hotpotmail.com Subject: Re: sshd Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:35:23 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <20020607182452.B916836F9@sitemail.everyone.net> In-Reply-To: <20020607182452.B916836F9@sitemail.everyone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206071335.23492.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 07 June 2002 01:24 pm, martin von schantz wrote: > Hi, I can't stop wondering if there really is a thought behind placing the sshd daemon startup in rc.conf and not in inetd.conf. > Is there anyone that might know why? It probably makes it a bit more secure for people (like me) who need sshd but don't want to run inetd. SSH is often desired for systems where none of the tools inetd starts are needed. -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message