Re: Bug#81118: general: Harden?
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:03:41AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>
> I don't think that's can be it, because at some point it was a debconf
> quesion, and I was happy. Then it went away and I was sad.
>
> Erm, judging by some people's responses, a clarification is maybe in
> order? By "doesn't enable the inetd.conf daemons" I mean these:
>
> #echo stream tcp nowait root internal
> #echo dgram udp wait root internal
> #chargen stream tcp nowait root internal
> #chargen dgram udp wait root internal
> #<off># discard stream tcp nowait root internal
> #<off># discard dgram udp wait root internal
> #<off># daytime stream tcp nowait root internal
> #daytime dgram udp wait root internal
> #<off># time stream tcp nowait root internal
> #time dgram udp wait root internal
>
Yes, well, there seems to be some disagreement[1] regarding the seriousness of
these services being enabled by default.
I spoke to AJ about it at linux.conf.au this year, and apparently the big
issue is a rewritten update-inetd, which this[2] email from Marco seemed to
allude to.
That said, I did try to get in touch with Marco about the rewrite, but I
never received a response.
regards
Andrew
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/10/msg01433.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/10/msg01405.html
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