On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:21:02PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > I think turning off sshd by default but having a preset to turn it on > > makes a lot of sense -- most places which will want it on will be > > using kickstart, or else will otherwise have little problem enabling > > it after the fact. > I think that would confuse a lot of folks... many people expect ssh to > be available on their desktop machines, etc. Yeah, but many are equally surprised that it's on by default. :) Any change here would have to be accompanied both by documentation about the change and clear docs telling people how to turn it on both by hand and in kickstart. > Also, whats the gain? > less exposure to brute force password guessing? Yes, that's the gain. Or to a widespread but as-yet-unknown sshd exploit. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
