Jeremy Katz wrote : > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:44 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:14 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > It's just that realistically, changing this would essentially mean > > > "any headless machine will not be able to be logged into without kickstart > > > machinations". I don't think that's an improvement. > > > > This is, in fact, the point. > > > > Think of it this way: > > > > - httpd defaults to off when it is installed > > - should we have it on b/c if you can't get to the shell then you > > can't turn it on? > > One difference is that httpd doesn't provide what could well be "the > shell"... Nor does it provide any kind of useful service before any further configuration is made or files put into place. OTOH, sshd as root right after install is what I consider a useful service. From there, everyone is free to harden the access as they wish. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 5.91 (FC6 Test2) - Linux kernel 2.6.17-1.2532.fc6 Load : 2.34 2.13 1.30 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
