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Re: Starting services automatically after install




On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 08:21:02AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> 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).

<sidetracking>

SSH is imho the one exeption to the rule, provided it has

PermitRootLogin set to either "no" or "without-password", instead of
"yes".


Kind regards,
--Toni++


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