From owner-freebsd-security Mon Nov 22 7:13: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from inbox.org (inbox.org [216.22.145.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F68D14DB3 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 07:13:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd@a.servers.aozilla.com) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by inbox.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA17331; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:12:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:12:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Mr. K." X-Sender: bsd@inbox.org To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" Cc: Frank Tobin , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disabling FTP (was Re: Why not sandbox BIND?) In-Reply-To: <38392E75.860D36D@vangelderen.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > Frank Tobin wrote: > > > Good for them, but it's not the newbies we primarily target methinks. > > > > FreeBSD doesn't attempt to target newbies, but why make it difficult for > > them to get a functional box? > > Because I'd value security more than newbee friendlyness. > If you're not a newbie, you're not going to do a standard install anyway. We could argue over whether or not the majority of people are going to turn telnet on or off (I'd argue on), but we're not arguing over security, we're arguing over typing a few keys on the keyboard. The only place the default really matters is people who are newbies and don't know any better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message