If memory serves me right, "Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote:

> Which just brings me to another point, why not just turn ssh on by default
> and turn telnetd off by default, given the latest exploit. Thanks for
> bringing up a point that I wanted to bring to the security team for awhile.

>From the release notes for -CURRENT and 4-STABLE:

   All services in inetd.conf are now disabled by default for new
   installations. sysinstall(8) gives the option of enabling or disabling
   inetd(8) on new installations, as well as editing inetd.conf.

Bruce.


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