Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

[Eric Schuele]

Hello,

I run sshd and ftpd on my laptop.  I generally start them via:
   sshd_enable="YES"
   ftpd_enable="YES"
in my rc.conf.

What are the pros/cons of running them via inetd?

This is in no way a high load or production machine.  Just my laptop
that I need access to from time to time.

The one pro I have noticed (which is rather important to me) is that
ftpd does not heed hosts.allow directives when NOT run via inetd.  Am I
correct in this?  I prefer to use tcpwrappers to further protect my sshd 
and ftpd.  I generally keep ftpd firewalled off from the world and when 
someone needs to (anonymous) ftp something to me I open the firewall. 
But it would be nice to allow only their IP using hosts.allow (as I just 
enable/disable a generic ruleset in ipfw).  So should I forget to 
disable the ruleset in ipfw then I am not open all day till I reboot.

Thanks.
-- 
Regards,
Eric