[olug] Amateur Fortress Building in Linux

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    I  would really like to read this article but did you by chance forget to
ad it's link to your  post?

            Gary Martin

Daniel Pfile wrote:

> Thought those of you having fun with inetd may be interested in this
> article on replacing inetd with tcpserver.
>
> Be sure to check out the article even if you don't wanna play with
> tcpserver. The author mentions a few other things Dan Bernstein has wrote,
> including a replacement for dns (bind holes anybody?), ftp, mail (go
> qmail!) and lots of other nice toys. All with security guarantees.
>
> If this software is so great, why isn't it in my distro you may ask. Well,
> DJB's license is restrictive. It doesn't allow people to ship modified
> versions of his software. Or even binaries. The Linux-For-The-Masses
> distros don't like this, since they can't transmogrify the package into
> their own security nightmare beast. So they don't. Trust me though, qmail
> is worth the hassle. So are a few other tools he has written.
>
> | Daniel Pfile        | I'm too cool for a signature |
> | pfiled at marietta.edu |                              |
>
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