Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:33:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> To: jas@flyingfox.com (Jim Shankland), freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSHD from Inetd Message-ID: <199706261933.PAA20854@limbo.senate.org> In-Reply-To: <199706261931.MAA00269@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> from Jim Shankland at "Jun 26, 97 12:31:08 pm"
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Actually I wanted sshd to run with tcpd :) is it possible to do that without inetd? Also, I have seen where sendmail was tcpd'd and HELO would report a pident output! Any info on this? > Firing up sshd from inetd is a bad idea, as sshd does non-trivial key > generation work on startup. It really wants to start up once, then fork > for each incoming connection. > > Or you can do what we've done on some of our machines, and turn off inetd, > leaving *only* sshd running. Who needs legacy protocols like telnet and > ftp when you've got sshd? (Tongue partly in cheek here; but only partly. > This really does work well in some environments.) > > Jim Shankland > Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. >
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