Re: Fedora default services (was: Re: F15 Feature - convert as many service init files as possible to the native SystemD services)

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2010/12/7 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 20:08 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
>> > On most laptops, however, which are the most common types of system sold
>> > today, a firewall is very definitely needed when you're connecting to
>> > hotel networks, public wifi access points...
>>
>> The only thing you need a firewall by default for is to prevent services
>> that are listening on the network from being accessible.  The better
>> solution is to stop having services listen on the network by default.
>>
>> This was done for sendmail many years ago; why hasn't it been done for
>> other things, such as rpcbind (and RPC services), cups, etc.?  These
>> daemons should bind to localhost only unless otherwise configured.
> In the cups case might be probably reasonable to default to localhost.
> However for rpcbind it is clearly not so - what's the point of starting
> things that are mostly needed for NFS when you would be able to mount
> only NFS provided by the localhost and export it to the localhost only
> as well. In that sense it is debatable whether we want to have rpcbind
> ON by default but having it on and bind to localhost only does not make
> any sense to me.

How many users use NFS on desktop? This is not even used on all servers.

So the question is - do we want to have NFS by default?

I use samba and I don't want to force all users to install it by default.

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