Re: Many ports open by default

[Frederico Muñoz <fsmunoz@sdf.lonestar.org>]

Warren A. Layton wrote:

> 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.

There could be, but in the specific case of ssh, and IIRC, debiconf asks 
if you wan't to run the server or not;
I even think that the default field selected is 'No'. Of course, if you 
say 'Yes' then the server will run and the port
will open.

My 2 cents,

Regards,

fsm

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