Moin endre!
endre@??? schrieb am Thursday, den 27. December 2001:
> > reason to have support via inetd in the first place? Other than
> > the fact that you may wish to run a MTA out of inetd/xinetd due to
> > limited system resources...but if you don't have enough resources,
> > why run a MTA in the first place...
> You may want to run anything from inetd on a bigger box too if you
> trust inetd's security better than the daemon. Inetd can open a
> privileged port for any program that can handle stdin/stdout and
> then run it as an unprivileged user. I'm sure this isn't a useless
> feature.
Hah! Trust inetd. Never!!! :P
See
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2001-02/2947.html
Its trivial to crash inetd because of its design. As for xinetd. don't
tell anyone but there is a private exploit on the internet to which
the current xinetd is vulnerable....unlike any for exim. ;->
-Kevin "Anti-Inetd" Sindhu
