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Subject: Re: Unix vs. Windows NT
From: peter @ baileynm . com (Peter da Silva)
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 09:48:42 -0600 (CST)
To: long-morrow @ CS . YALE . EDU
Cc: jthain @ cat . bbsr . edu, peter @ baileynm . com, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, sfogleman @ cda . com
In-reply-to: <199612111508 . KAA03571 @ SPARKY . CF . CS . YALE . EDU> from "long-morrow @ CS . YALE . EDU" at Dec 11, 96 10:08:54 am

> >Easy on UNIX. There's only two places where services can be set up on UNIX.
> >	/etc/rc*
> >	/etc/inetd.conf

> How about /var/spool/cron/crontabs ?

	a) I have never seen a *service* started up from crontabs or atjobs.
	b) No UNIX system is shipped with a server starting from there.
	c) In setting up a firewall, I can't see any way you'd be setting
	   a service up to run from crontab.
	d) And if you did, *you* did it, not the vendor. Presumably when
	   you're setting up a firewall you know what you're doing.
	e) If you don't know what you're doing, hire someone who does
	   before you play this game.

> Or, if you let users login or rsh to a Unix system then Joe Random User can
> start up their own services on your host at ports above 1024, ala :

	On a firewall?????



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