Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:37:25PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote [edited]:
> (Cross-posting to d-d-games for discussion of the Quake III-based games)
>
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 at 15:20:52 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Speaking as someone who has a few of the DONT_NOT_DISABLE_SERVICE
> > variables in some of my packages
>
> Speaking as another implementor of similar variables: I added them in
> openarena-server, quake3-server and tremulous-server (game dedicated servers),
> with the servers disabled by default, for these reasons:
[..]
Another reason for having a service disabled by default is security, eg.
beanstalkd as of now is meant for use in trusted networks (no authentication).
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