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On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 15:33, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> Hello Developers, |
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> I'm planning to add xinetd snippets for rlogind and telnetd into the |
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> netkit ebuilds. These will install into /etc/xinetd.d, similar to the |
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> snippets which already install there. This seems appropriate to me for |
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> a couple reasons: |
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> (1) xinetd has external connections disabled by default in |
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> /etc/xinetd.conf. Therefore this addition doesn't open up security |
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> holes by default. The system administrator still needs to change |
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> /etc/xinetd.conf (or the appropriate snippet) to allow network |
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> connections to these daemons. |
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> (2) xinetd is further disabled by default since it requires the |
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> administrator to inentionally "rc-update add xinetd default". |
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> (3) Considering the protection inherent in the system provided by the |
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> policies in (1) and (2), it seems amiss to not supply working |
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> snippets in /etc/xinetd.d for these daemons. Additionally, |
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> netkit-rsh and netkit-telnet don't install by default, so I think |
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> all the bases are covered. |
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> I'll make these changes in the next 24 hours or so unless there is |
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> a reasonable objection. |
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> Aron |
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I would not like that. Since some of us may modify xinetd.conf to run |
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public services and having telnet/stuff added could come as a surprise. |
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How about adding them as comments, so if one wants them, all that needs |
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to be done is uncommenting of a few lines. |
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