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Re: the netbase/inetd conspiracy



On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:30:29PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> * root is silly and executes /usr/sbin/inetd directly.
> 
> You cannot really protect yourself against this kind of error, root
> has to know what (s)he is doing.

You _can_ protect yourself against this kind of error, by not having
/usr/sbin/inetd at all.  Junior admin types 'inetd' like they taught in
Solaris class, gets an error, comes and asks why it doesn't work, is told
"don't do that."

-- 
 - mdz



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