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Re: Starting services automatically after install



]] Aaron Toponce 

> Enabling services on external interfaces by default is indeed a bug, IMO,
> especially things like SSH, DHCP, SMTP or Bind (which has a long history of
> security problems).

Are you seriously suggesting that DHCP and SSH servers should not listen
on external interfaces by default?  The use case for SSH or DHCPd on
localhost only is pretty small.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are


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