Re: SecurityPortal Review of Potato
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 07:22:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> I find myself shocked and horrified (well, surprised, anyway) that he's
> actually right about the latter services being enabled. It appears that
> rsh-server is depended upon by rstartd (the preferred alternative to ssh,
> according to the dependencies, and hence apt), and rstartd is in the
> x-window-system task.
I've argued before that we shouldn't ship any daemons by default and got
shouted down. Hats off if you can convince people that the ease of use
of features most people neither want nor need should take a back seat to
security.
--
Mike Stone
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