On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:20:54PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:14:10AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Well, I don't even have a handle on what is marked standard any more. > > But it feels to me like adding -s is the right thing to do. > > There's a whole lot of servers (telnetd, ftpd, nfs-server) that are > standard that most people won't install (or will install different > versions of.) I don't think they're good to install by default without > big warnings. (I've long considered trying to root the tamogachi server > that was a part of Slink games task. I figure there were probably quite > a few systems out there unknowingly running that demon on their box.) then IMO these should have thier priority downgraded. iirc priority standard means any tool that a average unix geek will say `what the fsck where is foo' if missing. i don't think nfs servers fall into that catagory. ftpd and telnetd perhaps used to, but anymore a reasonable unix admin will say `what the fsck is telnetd doing on this box it should be ssh!' of course i tend to say `what the fsck where is emacs' when i find it missing so let the flam^H^H^H^Hdebate begin ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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