Re: the netbase/inetd conspiracy

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 22-Sep-02, 23:14 (CDT), Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: 
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:07:09PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > rm /etc/inetd.conf
> > 1) makes sure it won't run, and that if it is run, it won't work;
> > 2) is already the supported way of dealing in Debian.
> 
> Consider the "magic" required. One possibility is that something will
> accidently recreate /etc/inetd.conf. The other is that "ls" or similar
> will accidently get socket coded added to it. The latter doesn't seem
> remotely plausible: it could happen if someone specifically wants
> to exploit you, but not by accident, or as part of regular Debian
> activity. By contrast the former happens every time you upgrade
> netkit-inetd -- as it happens (2) *isn't* the case.

Then netkit-inetd is broken. If I remove a configuration file, it damn
well better stay gone unless I do something explicit to re-add it.
Packages that don't use the dpkg conffile mechanism are still required
to act in an equivalent manner.

Steve

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Steve Greenland

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