Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:06:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsh/Rlogin/Rcmd & friends Message-ID: <200009160006.RAA77706@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200009152136.e8FLaou26312@cwsys.cwsent.com> from Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group at "Sep 15, 2000 02:35:50 pm"
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Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > So what! That's the price of security. I believe that the > telnet/ftp/"r" commands shouldn't even be ports. We need to make it > difficult to install unsafe software on the system. That way the admin > would have to go to all the trouble to find the source for unsafe > software somewhere on the Net, port it, and install it. Then it's not > FreeBSD's fault if that admin's system is compromised. > This is a somewhat myoptic view of the world. If I didn't read your sig, I would have thought you worked with only FreeBSD boxes. When I got the OSF1 box several years ago, I intended to use amanda for remote back-ups. Well, amanda wasn't 64-bit clean, and I had an helluva time trying to get OSF1 and FreeBSD talking. I haven't tried amanda lately so may be it works nows, but having rdump/rrstore on OSF1 and /etc/rmt of FreeBSD made it straight forward to back-up the OSF1 system. FreeBSD provides the bullets. It up to the admin to shoot his foot or not. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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