Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 19:42:57 -0500 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: wc_fbsd@xxiii.com Cc: freeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd.... Message-ID: <44652B91.3030509@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060512163433.02e85298@mailsvr.xxiii.com> References: <4464B95D.1040702@computer.org> <20060512171515.GC34035@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <4464CEDA.80906@computer.org> <6.0.0.22.2.20060512152402.026a60c8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20060512163433.02e85298@mailsvr.xxiii.com>
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wc_fbsd@xxiii.com wrote: > At 04:25 PM 5/12/2006, you wrote: >> inetd running is discouraged. Instead run the daemons on boot using >> rc scripts. If you look back in the history, inetd running is a >> security risk, and was discouraged in the 5.X releases. > > Is that still really true? Waaayyy back when, inetd would have all > kinds of dangerous services enabled by default (allowing DOS stuff like > spewing "chargen" into "discard"). > > But that was a configuration issue, and issues with the services it > launched; not with inetd itself. > > The authentication is still done within ftpd. You're just saving the > tiny overhead of running it all the time for occasional use. And inetd > does allow the tcpwrappers for anything it launches (obviously the > wrappers are compiled into many other things now, ftpd included.) You say tcpwrappers are compiled into ftpd? Are you sure? How can I "enable" or otherwise use them? If I add things to hosts.allow they seem to have no influence. This would solve my problem as I would not need inetd. > > -Wayne > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Eric
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