On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 21:02 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 13.04.10 17:52, Bastien Nocera (bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > Heya, > > > > It seems to me that Avahi would be safe to run by default. That would > > allow accessing remote machines through their .local names, even if it > > wouldn't solve the problem of sharing *from* the machine itself. > > > > But it would mean we can SSH, or VNC into local area machines, and > > consume data (shares, music, etc.). > > > > Comments? > > Definitely makes sense to me. > > Ideally the normal distro would enable it too, but the desktop live cd > should be much less controversial. True. But right now, we cannot open a port depending on whether an application is running (in this case, opening the mdns port if Avahi is running). Some people would think it is a security problem (as you could push any server on that port). -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
