My computer is mono-user, so I my account and the root account have no password. As I am sometimes connected to the internet, I disabled almost every entries in /etc/inetd.conf to be safe.
The problem is that an upgrade of netstd has reenabled most of this entries (rlogin, telnet, ...), which I did not notice at once. Looking to the postinst script of netstd I have seen that this upgrade behaviour should occur only when entries had been disabled with update-inetd (this was my case) which prefix them with "#<off>#". I think this is very misleading. I have seen nowhere documented that update-inetd is reserved for configuration script and should not be used by the adminstrator. But if he uses it, an upgrade may render his system insecure. Have I missed some documentation that explains this problem? I think there should be a warning in the update-inetd man page. Loic -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
