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Re: services installed and running "out of the box"



On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:12:28AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote:
> For what its worth, and without wanting a distro-religious war about it,
> Mandrake has a variety of security levels, which can be locally configured,
> and which can allow exactly this sort of behavior;

Honestly, I think we can get away with something vastly less complex:
Just don't install network services by default.  I don't see any need
for "security levels" or anything like that.  Really, just about any
network service is going to require some amount of configuration before
it can be used.

Basically, I think that "security levels" don't gain you anything over
"don't install the package".  And since, as I said, just about any
network service is going to need configuration attention in order to be
useful, the additional small step of "apt-get install <foo>" is not a
lot to ask.

noah

 

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