On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:59:28PM -0800, Erik Hollensbe wrote: > I've made this point before, but debian comes installed with 3 very > unneeded services installed by default: > > 1) portmap "Portmap is not insecure" -- said here many times before. iirc portmap is started by default on OpenBSD systems. personally i think portmap should be off by default but thats just my opinion which most people seem to disagree with. fair enough. > 2) mountd mountd/nfsd are not started unless there is an export in /etc/exports. see the initscript, it exits if it can't find anything in /etc/exports. installed by default yes (priority standard) started by default no. rpc.statd/lockd are indeed started though regardless of the status of nfs exports/mounts. > Plus, there are TONS of GNU software tools, even more if you include > GPL'd tools in debian. OpenBSD wins it's claims by keeping the distribution > light from default install... which is why it's best geared towards a > firewall. debian can be as thin or as bloated as you see fit. dselect by default selects all priority standard packages which should get a fairly standard Free text mode unix system. priority standard is a bit more then you get in a default OpenBSD install, but not by that much iirc. if you want a really small system eschew priority standard. then you are definitly as light or lighter then openbsd. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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