[18517] in Athena Bugs
Re: /etc/athena/inetd.conf under linux 8.4.15
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Thu Nov 16 14:50:41 2000
Message-Id: <200011161950.OAA00670@nighthawk.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:17:46 EST."
<200011161617.LAA07152@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:50:37 EST
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
Basically the principle of least surprise for the not entirely
clueful sys admin. It's not uncommon for say a cracker to ftp
files to and from broken machines (using both client and server
side ftp). This would basically make someone reading their
syslogs aware that something is going on without having to also
search through lastlog information.
Users that are say running heavy use ftp servers that don't want
this turned on probably know enough to turn it off.
--Angie
>> It would be really useful if the call to ftpd also included the -l
>> flag to enable logging.
>
>Any particular rationale for why it should be the default? At the
>moment, this seems to be an issue of personal preference.
