Hi everyone.
I've intalled Slackware 9.1.
By default Slack installs Inetd.
Is Xinetd the replacer of Inet?
Is it secure use Inetd or should i upgrade to Xinetd?

Best regards,
Nuno Paquete.

Tuga wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> I've intalled Slackware 9.1.
> By default Slack installs Inetd.
> Is Xinetd the replacer of Inet?
> Is it secure use Inetd or should i upgrade to Xinetd?

if you check the posts in this ng for the past couple of days, you'll find
a thread with the same topic. you'll find some opinions on (x)inetd there.

btw, it's not at upgrade if you replace one package with another.

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_.-In alt.os.linux.slackware, Tuga wrote the following -._
> I've intalled Slackware 9.1.
> By default Slack installs Inetd.
> Is it secure use Inetd or should i upgrade to Xinetd?

As Joost mentioned there is a thread all of 2 days old that covers
this. Any time you want to know if one thing is more secure than
anther just go to <url:http://www.cert.org> and do a search on them.
Remember that the one with the most vulnerabilities isn't always the
least secure though. Read through the results and notice the severity
of each one, the age of each project, and other factors and compare
for yourself.

My call: inetd is the standard on Slackware. Until Pat changes that
then I have no need to. If there is a problem then the
slackare-security mailing list will let me know. And on a technical
level slack was built with "X". Changing to "Y" could cause
problems. This isn't always the case but it is always something to
consider when dealing with something that is so fundamental to the way
the distribution is set up. Kind of like never changing your default
shell because doing that could void your service contract.

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On 2004-03-05, Faux_Pseudo <Faux_Pseudo@ip68-230-192-17.rd.hr.cox.net> wrote:
>
> My call: inetd is the standard on Slackware. Until Pat changes that
> then I have no need to.

sendmail is the standard on Slackware, but many folks have replaced it
with postfix, exim, or qmail. In fact, haven't you yourself replaced
sendmail?

> And on a technical
> level slack was built with "X". Changing to "Y" could cause
> problems. This isn't always the case but it is always something to
> consider when dealing with something that is so fundamental to the way
> the distribution is set up.

True. I'd think, though, that sendmail is much more fundamental to the
distro than inetd, and so I'd be more wary of replacing sendmail than
inetd. inetd really does very little any more, so it's not so bad to
try to replace it; OTOH, since it does little, I usually try to see if I
can get away with not installing it at all before trying to replace it.

- --keith

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Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> On 2004-03-05, Faux_Pseudo wrote:

> > My call: inetd is the standard on Slackware. Until Pat changes
> > that then I have no need to.

> sendmail is the standard on Slackware, but many folks have
> replaced it with postfix, exim, or qmail. In fact, haven't you
> yourself replaced sendmail?

Why the smilie? You nailed him contradicting himself, yet again,
so I see no reason to smile about that. If you nailed ABC in a
contradiction (you never would on me) there would be no smilie so
why the smilie here?

cordially, as always,

rm

Randy MacQuarrie wrote:

> Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>> On 2004-03-05, Faux_Pseudo wrote:
>
>> > My call: inetd is the standard on Slackware. Until Pat changes
>> > that then I have no need to.
>
>> sendmail is the standard on Slackware, but many folks have
>> replaced it with postfix, exim, or qmail. In fact, haven't you
>> yourself replaced sendmail?
>
> Why the smilie? You nailed him contradicting himself, yet again,
> so I see no reason to smile about that. If you nailed ABC in a
> contradiction (you never would on me) there would be no smilie so
> why the smilie here?
>
> cordially, as always,
>
> rm


So, do you think that i should replace inetd?
>> sendmail is the standard on Slackware, but many folks have
>> replaced it with postfix, exim, or qmail. In fact, haven't you
>> yourself replaced sendmail?
That's true, that's what i've done.
Thank you all.

Tuga <nmp@ispgaya.pt> wrote:

> So, do you think that i should replace inetd?

Obviously that depends on what you want to replace it with. If you
want to change just to change, go all the way and try XP.

cordially, as always,

rm

Randy MacQuarrie wrote:

> Tuga <nmp@ispgaya.pt> wrote:
>
>> So, do you think that i should replace inetd?
>
> Obviously that depends on what you want to replace it with. If you
> want to change just to change, go all the way and try XP.
>
> cordially, as always,
>
> rm

Thanks again.
I don't want to change just to change. I used RH for 3 years, and this
distro, as you provably know comes with Xinetd installed, so i'm very
familiar with Xinetd.
The problem is: Should i unistall Inetd?
How do i do such a thing?
Is it installed as a package, so i can uninstall it with removepkg command?

Best regards.

Tuga <nmp@ispgaya.pt> wrote:

> Thanks again.
> I don't want to change just to change. I used RH for 3 years, and
> this distro, as you provably know comes with Xinetd installed, so
> i'm very familiar with Xinetd.
> The problem is: Should i unistall Inetd?

Is inetd running anything? Look in your /etc/inittab file to see
if inetd is running anything. It may be running stuff you don't
even want. If you block off everything in your inettab file you
won't need to run inetd.

> How do i do such a thing? Is it installed as a package, so i can
> uninstall it with removepkg command?

You block inetd from starting in the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 file.

No disrespect, but if you were 3 years on Redhat, why on earth
would you change distros? Especially one packaged as differently
as slackware?

cordially, as always,

rm