On Fri, Nov 6, 1998 4:52 AM, Dave Huang <mailto:khym@bga.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> > boom, you are done. Your system is no more secure or insecure than it
was
> > before.
> 
> Isn't it possibly slightly less secure to run telnet on a port >= 1024?
If
> inetd dies for some reason, a user could setup their on telnetd on that
> port and grab passwords or whatever. Of course, inetd shouldn't be dying,
> but it's happened to me before (recently, in fact... egcs codegen bug,
> perhaps?)

>From man init --------------------
     The role of init is so critical that if it dies, the system will
reboot
     itself automatically.  If, at bootstrap time, the init process cannot
be
     located, the system will panic with the message ``panic: "init died
(sig-
     nal %d, exit %d)''.
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