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

[Steve Wray <stevew@catalyst.net.nz>]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:16, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> 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:

I wasn't suggesting that debian should take the Mandrake methodology onboard 
in a wholesale fashion... I think my boss would take issue with that!
;)

> 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.

And yet most distros and package management systems seem to do
so by default...