From: smith (smithtem.confuciun.com)
Date: Sun Nov 05 2006 - 13:36:16 CST

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On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 19:55:50 -0500, Nick Guenther wrote
> On 11/4/06, STeve Andre' <andresmsu.edu> wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 November 2006 19:09, Nick Guenther wrote:
> > > Just came across this article:
> > > http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/OpenBSD/services.htm
> > >
> > > So is he right?
> > >
> > > -Nick
> >
> > It seems that this was written to cover OpenBSD 2.9, and revisied
> > for 3.0. Keeping old sites like this online without a huge disclaimer
> > saying "likely out of date!" seems irresponsible to me.
> >
> > Look at /etc/rc and /etc/rc.conf to see whats going on these days.
> > Always look to see what an author claims about whats going on
> > in OpenBSD before believing what they say...
>
> Thank you, that makes sense. Then may I ask modified question: was it
> true at the time?
>
> -Nick

At the time it made good sense but also wouldn't have mattered because I don't
believe there was ever a vulnerability found for it YET! YET being the reason
in makes good sense. I could be wrong on this though, maybe there was a
vulnerability that I'm not aware of. This site, though, helped me get started
in OpenBSD, for which I'm thankful to the author.

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