[ale] sshd and inetd

[Chris Farris]

> 	I'd like to integrate sshd with inetd and was wondering
> a couple things.  The man pages for ssh say that it's a drop-in
> replacement for rlogin, etc.  Does this mean I could simply
> change all references to rlogind to sshd in my /etc/inetd.conf
> file?  Or is there more to it than that?
> 
> 	The other thing I was wondering was is this even an
> adviseable thing to do?  sshd does some things with key management 
> (i.e. regenerating keys every hour, not keeping them on disks) that
> makes it seem like starting sshd via inetd would bring more
> disadvantages than benefits.
I start sshd manually on occasion. It can take up to 30sec on slower
systems. It has a very high startup cost.

I wouldn't reccomend it.

Chris
> 
> 	Any thoughts on this?
> 
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