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Re: Many ports open by default



On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:25:34AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> Why would you keep something around if you don't want to run it?  Debian
> makes the (correct) assumption that if you've installed something, you
> want to run it.  If i install bind, it will assume i want it to run. 

Well, not everyone that installs ssh wants to run the server (some may just
want to use the client to connect to other machines). This is just one
example; I'm sure that there are many more.

Warren

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