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Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart



On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 04:42:15PM -0400, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Imagine there is a vulnerability in SSH which has not been fixed
> yet for whatever reason. Having SSH run in this situation all the
> time would make the machine a target for possible attacks.

If all I have to do is make a connection to port 22 to start the
service, which would happen as part of an attack anyway, then there's no
added security provided by socket activation.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>

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