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Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default



On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:04:36PM +0200, Robert van der Meulen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Adam McKenna (adam@debian.org):
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:04:04AM +0200, Robert van der Meulen wrote:
> > > Thanks for the clear explanation; my vision was getting a bit clouded, late
> > > at night (and annoyed by the troll :) )
> > > I totally agree with all this.
> > Of course you do, because it's 100% correct.  But this thread isn't about
> > what individual administrators do, or what they should do, it's about what
> > Debian should do by default.  And PARANOID should not be used at all, let
> > alone be the default.  (Except for pedants as previously illustrated.)
> This is starting to become an endless discussion with no real outcome.
> What Debian does by default should be what most admins do. I'm not going to
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You are wrong. Read the policy. Debian is not exclusively for admins.

> get into this discussion anymore, as i think all arguments have been brought
> forward too many times. You think 'paranoid' should not be used at all, I
> think 'ALL: PARANOID' is not strong enough, but for a default install 'ALL:
> ALL' would be too strong.
> 
> Greets,
> 	Robert

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