Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:52:35 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <72574.971196755@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:20:50 PDT." <200010101620.e9AGKoo13270@earth.backplane.com>
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In message <200010101620.e9AGKoo13270@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: > I don't see much of a point trying to restrict ourselves to the lowest > common denominator - some joe sysadmin who isn't willing to run unix on > a laptop or who isn't willing to buy a single program for windows to > access a machine securely. I am not asking for us to "restrict ourselves to the lowest common denominator". I'm asking that we leave the lower bound where it is. I am very happy that machines come online with sshd working now, that's a great step forward in many cases, just not in all cases. Besides: Considering that we have not allowed remote root logins for quite some time, having telnetd enabled on a freshly installed box poses no security hole: there are no accounts to break in to. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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