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Subject: Re: Demo patch - run telnetd as non-root and chroot()'ed
From: Jim Breton (jamesb-auditalongtheway.com)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 15:10:06 CDT

On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:14:26PM +0100, Sean Hunter wrote:
> How about ditching inetd entirely and using something like tcpserver
> instead? This works fine here, although I don't need to run any udp
> services that aren't stand-alone daemons.

I agree that tcpserver is quite good, however licensing may be the
biggest obstacle to distribution and widespread use.

(It has to go into Debian's "non-free" for just this reason. :( )