uid as root?

[Omer Ansari]

can anyone tell me why it has to be root running all the standard
inet
services...more explicitly, the inetd.conf file has the uid of
root for
telnet, ftp and many other services.....this seems to be a
security
threat, and there are many exploits which take advantage of this.

so why has it been implemented this way?



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Omer Ansari
Network Engineer,
Supernet PDSL
PK.