Kingsly John rearranged electrons thusly:
> Hmm.. shouldn't that be "This security lapse is usually off by default,
> but can be explicitly turned on."
> you might as well allow root to telnet etc !
There's something called a firewall which gives people both these bright ideas
... I mean commercial ones like checkpoint and cisco PIX :)
> And in this particular case where the security concsious people have
> stopped telnet access... allowing root ftp would be rather dumb.
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