On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Jamie Risk wrote: > I downloaded, compiled and am now using (via xinetd) the telnet daemon > from GNU's Inetutils. In RH distributions, I noticed the daemon takes on > the name "/sbin/in.telnetd" (or something very similar) whereas the > inetutils > telnet daemon takes on the name "/usr/libexec/telnetd". >
Anything daemon name starting `in.' suggests it is being called from tcp_wrappers, which *might* be providing a bit less insecurity. > Two questions: > * Is there a difference between the two daemons? Pass, I wouldn't dare run telnetd so I don't know ;-) > and, a little more GNU install specific... > * What does the /usr/libexec directory typically hold? > I thought after accepting the default "./configure" outputs and running > "make && make install", the daemons would be placed in /sbin or > /usr/sbin. > From memory, libexec is intended for binaries that should not be executed directly (e.g. you are running it from xinetd). > - Jamie > > > > - Do you *really* need the telnet daemon ? Ken -- Out of the darkness a voice spake unto me, saying "smile, things could be worse". So I smiled, and lo, things became worse. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
