Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <01C1097D.231204F0.jorgens@coho.net> From: Steve Jorgensen Reply-To: "jorgens@coho.net" To: "Cygwin List (E-mail)" Subject: RE: installing sftpd on Win2k Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:15:59 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just realized I didn't word that well. It seems to me that the only security problems with inetd besides running insecure services that would be insecure anyway would be if your environment already allows users to run arbitrary programs on your system so that they could run services that open holes. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Jorgensen [SMTP:jorgens@coho.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 8:12 PM To: Cygwin List (E-mail) Subject: RE: installing sftpd on Win2k Unless I misunderstand, inetd only leaves you open to being hacked from the outside if you also run insecure services. The only other security problems would be those that arise from allowing users to run arbitrary programs on the computer running inetd, right? -----Original Message----- From: Carl Masens [SMTP:carl.masens@uts.edu.au] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 8:04 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: installing sftpd on Win2k having determined that inetd leaves one wide open to being hacked, how does one install sfptd on a Win2K box, "srvany.exe" is not found when I do a search? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/