I upgraded my system from 6.2 to 7.0. The only services that I had enabled in inetd.conf was time (I am not sure why). When I upgraded, I ended up with: finger linuxconf-web rexec rlogin rsh telnet tftp time in /etc/xinetd.d I was able to finger my machine and login via telnet and rlogin. I tried rsh and it gave me "Permission denied". I didn't try anything else. The install shouldn't enable services that were previously disabled.
Assigning to xinetd owner.
xinetd doesn't touch this... the reason they are enabled is because they shipped with configuration files which turn them on. This has been fixed in our trees, as they are now off by default.