[olug] Amateur Fortress Building in Linux

Daniel Pfile pfiled at marietta.edu
Mon Sep 11 01:47:50 UTC 2000


ummm whoops!

here yah go:

http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=903

mah bad :)

| Daniel Pfile        | I'm too cool for a signature |
| pfiled at marietta.edu |                              |

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, mesc wrote:

>     I  would really like to read this article but did you by chance forget to
> ad it's link to your  post?
> 
>             Gary Martin
> 
> Daniel Pfile wrote:
> 
> > Thought those of you having fun with inetd may be interested in this
> > article on replacing inetd with tcpserver.
> >
> > Be sure to check out the article even if you don't wanna play with
> > tcpserver. The author mentions a few other things Dan Bernstein has wrote,
> > including a replacement for dns (bind holes anybody?), ftp, mail (go
> > qmail!) and lots of other nice toys. All with security guarantees.
> >
> > If this software is so great, why isn't it in my distro you may ask. Well,
> > DJB's license is restrictive. It doesn't allow people to ship modified
> > versions of his software. Or even binaries. The Linux-For-The-Masses
> > distros don't like this, since they can't transmogrify the package into
> > their own security nightmare beast. So they don't. Trust me though, qmail
> > is worth the hassle. So are a few other tools he has written.
> >
> > | Daniel Pfile        | I'm too cool for a signature |
> > | pfiled at marietta.edu |                              |
> >
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