On Friday, February 21, 2020 8:07:15 AM MST Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 21:34 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > Any critical system daemons are 1024 and below. The reason the high > > ports are left open is for user applications to be able to > > communicate without users having to figure out the firewall. > > > Beyond the usual (HTTP, mail, DNS servers, etc), what is the average > non-admin user going to set up that listens as a server? Admin-users > setting up those traditional services ought to know how to manage > firewalls, or they ought not to mess around with those services. > > Thanks to the forever moving target closed-source things like ICQ, MSN, > Yahoo messenger (some of which have gone by the way of the dodo), there > isn't much in the way of Linux-based clients for those kind of things > that need to have listening ports. > > I can only think of something like bitorrent, which doesn't seem to > need you to poke holes in your firewall. > > -- > > uname -rsvp > Linux 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 4 23:02:59 UTC 2020 x86_64 > > Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. > I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. Most likely, many services, entirely unknowingly, as their own user. I have no idea what led the GNOME folks into believing it was a good idea to open up EVERYTHING above 1024. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
