Bug#3150: inetd started too soon
miquels@q.cistron.nl writes ("Bug#3150: inetd started too soon"):
> Package: netbase
> Version: 2.03-1
>
> Inetd is started early in the bootup process. This is probably
> good, but the login services such as telnet and rlogin are also enabled,
> and one can login before system bootup is complete.
>
> I don't exactly know how to solve this, but one way would be to
> do an "echo The system is booting > /etc/nologin" and remove this
> nologin file in a seperate script that runs last (S99rmnologin).
Urgh, I'm not sure you want to trample over the user's nologin file,
if they've created one.
Alternatively we could make the policy that S99rmnologin is supposed
to do this and the rc.boot isn't.
Ian.
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