Richard Melville wrote:
On 21 August 2015 at 19:10, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:Richard Melville wrote: It was ftp and telnet that I was thinking of, along with rcp, rexec, rlogin, rsh and tftp. Surely, ifconfig has been marked as deprecated for some time and replaced with iproute2. I agree that the r* programs are obsolete, but the others are useful in some circumstances. Many users, including me, expect ifconfig. Do you know of any distros that do not include ifconfig? Not sure if that was rhetorical, but no, not off hand. Mind you, I haven't carried out a survey. It's a fair point, but if it comes down to having to install inetutils just to get ifconfig I'm not sure that warrants it. If users have the r* programs the likelihood is that they will use them, even though we all know that they are a security hazard. Maybe, at least, there should be a health warning in the book.
Perhaps I'll disable the r* programs, but we still want ftp and telnet. We could add one of the ftp programs like vsftpd, but that goes against the intended minimal set of packages in LFS. I do not know where else the telnet program could be obtained.
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