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Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default



On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:55:51PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> 
> That's the point.  This _DOES_NOT_ increase security.  Anyone who believes it
> does is suffering from delusions.  All it does is make life harder on
> sysadmins, who, if they don't know this is enabled, may spend hours chasing
> down this problem.

then that sysadmin sucks.  one quick look at the logfiles on the
server will CLEARLY show exactly what the problem is.  unless the
sysadmin can't read either i fail to see how they would spend `hours
chasing down this problem'  

if they are not even bothering to look at logfiles well what can i
say...  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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