Re: A few observations about systemd

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

On 2011-08-02, Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> wrote:
> On Aug 02, Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@dion.org.ua> wrote:
>> Another example is dovecot-imapd. It's possible to use it in
>> preauthenticated mode. In such case no system-wide daemon is required and
>> mail client should just start imapd and talk with it using stdin/stdout.
> Again something which is very uncommon.

I tend to differ, but meh.

I guess in an ideal world, we should ship with the firewall being pre-enabled
and the inbound ports requiring activation by the sysadmin.  (Apart from SSH
and conntrack'ed ports.)

Kind regards
Philipp Kern