Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 00:01:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: andrews@technologist.com (Will Andrews) Cc: jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), adrian@FreeBSD.ORG (Adrian Chadd), andrews@technologist.com (Will Andrews), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disabling inetd? Message-ID: <200006290001.RAA08463@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000626201508.B23538@argon.gryphonsoft.com> from "Will Andrews" at Jun 26, 2000 08:15:08 PM
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> > Three more months until that patent expires, folks. Just three more > > months. > > I already realized that there is no way we can disable inetd completely > until telnet can have a guaranteed replacement, like ssh. =) > > When RSAREF becomes public domain (or whatever), that's a likely time > when we can lock down inetd by default. In the meantime, there's > nothing preventing us from working on any other issues that might > prevent this from happening. Some people use Windows machines as their clients. I guess you will get Microsoft to ship an SSH shell client too? Particularly if the BSD box is eing set up to be the network gateway? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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