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Re: Many ports open by default



On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 07:37:21AM -0500, Warren A. Layton 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.

ssh asks you if you want to run sshd.

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