Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

[Eric Schuele]

wc_fbsd at xxiii.com wrote:
> At 04:25 PM 5/12/2006, you wrote:
>> inetd running is discouraged.  Instead run the daemons on boot using 
>> rc scripts.  If you look back in the history, inetd running is a 
>> security risk, and was discouraged in the 5.X releases.
> 
> Is that still really true?  Waaayyy back when, inetd would have all 
> kinds of dangerous services enabled by default (allowing DOS stuff like 
> spewing "chargen" into "discard").
> 
> But that was a configuration issue, and issues with the services it 
> launched;  not with inetd itself.
> 
> The authentication is still done within ftpd.  You're just saving the 
> tiny overhead of running it all the time for occasional use.  And inetd 
> does allow the tcpwrappers for anything it launches (obviously the 
> wrappers are compiled into many other things now, ftpd included.)

You say tcpwrappers are compiled into ftpd?  Are you sure?  How can I 
"enable" or otherwise use them?  If I add things to hosts.allow they 
seem to have no influence.  This would solve my problem as I would not 
need inetd.

> 
>   -Wayne
> 
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Regards,
Eric